On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:51 PM, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 12d in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound (quid).
>
> ...and that "d" in "12d" is, of course, pronounced "pee". :-)
>
Nah, it's not - it was pence or pennies. Then of course the Govinm'nt went
and stuffed things up by keeping the old pound at it's then value and having
100 new pence to a pound, so we had to divide all our old prices by 2.4 to work
out what they were in new pence. Should have had a new pound worth 100 old
pence - then it would have been easy. For example, an item costing a shilling
would then have cost 12np, something at half-a-crown would have been 30np, and
so on. We all knew how many pennies there were at any given price, but the
sale of calculators went up (by 2.4 times?) when we decimalized.
John Coyle
(who also thinks this thread is great fun, 'cos it let's him show off all that
now useless stuff that was pounded into him by the primary school teachers from
hell)
Brisbane, Australia
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