That would have screwed up that carefully calculated relationship between the
shilling florin and pound. (Which is the same as between the half-disme
disme and dollar
and yes I misspelled dime on purpose to try to use the original spelling.
The term nickel
in the US is a nickname so to speak the official term for the 5 cent coin
used to be and maybe
still is half-dime).
At 04:29 PM 8/23/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>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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