On 26/10/2003 21:30, Doug Ewell wrote:
...
In my limited experience, that word DIME has done more to confuse
furriners than anything else about the U.S. and Canadian monetary
systems. The dime is the smallest coin in the set physically, weighing
less than half as much as a nickel, and made of (apparently) the same
material, yet worth twice as much. The etymology tracing the word
"dime" back to Latin "decem" ("ten") is lost on those who have not grown
up with the system, and obvious to those who have.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
It did confuse me for a bit. But it shouldn't confuse Australians, who
are used to the two dollar coin being half the size of the one dollar
coin, and made of the same metal.
--
Peter Kirk
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http://www.qaya.org/
