Dorothy Robbie wrote: > I can't believe an intelligent person like yourself would want to > take such a retrograde step, although it is amazing how often one > hears people refer to money as 'pounds, shillings and pence', even > people who are far too young to remember pre-decimal currency. A pint > of beer wouldn't go back to being 1/10d (or whatever) if we *did* > revert to that cumbersome method of counting! :-)
Quite. There was that marvellous "Note for Americans and other alien life forms" in Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens", with an explanation of the BRITONS' pre-decimal currency. It ended with something along the lines of: The British resisted decimal currency for a long time, because it was too complicated. -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> Trees, once grown in large numbers, make perfect forests.
