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Man who found smooth Mars bar gets £2 compensation
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Hey, American here. I watch tons of old British telly and I thought i had a good understanding of currency terms but now I'm confused. I thought a quid is just another word for a pound?
While im here, is pence-pennies,tuppence-2 pennies, a shilling-like a dime or something,bob-just slang for pound? Plus you guys had the euro sort of wander in before brevity, it's all so confusing.
I think of quid as the british equivalent of "bucks"
But a buck is 1$, and the post states 2£ compensation? Or did it cost 1£? That's where I am confusion.
It cost a quid and he got two back so he can buy two mars bars.
Tuppence is two pence, and nobody says it anymore. Shilling was twelve pence in old money. Farthing was a quarter penny. Ha'p'ny was a half penny. Bob was another word for a shilling. Crown was 60 pence, which was a quarter of a pound. Now we just have pounds and pence/pennies. It's much simpler.
A bob has always been a shilling, hence is not used any more. I've never heard of it meaning a pound.
Yes, you're right.
Linguistics are so fun
Base 12 is actually simpler when you're accustomed to it. It's easier to figure out a third in base 12. The average person wasn't trading in a pound and the rich could give two shits.
It's one banana Micheal, what could it cost? Ten pounds sterling?
What's wild is that the guinea was one pound one shilling, but somehow also a quarter ounce of gold. £1.05 is nothing!
Most of those are old-timey pre-decimal coins. You only need to know pounds (or quid) and pennies (or pence).
Fuck-all
A shilling used to be 12 pence, and there were 20 shillings in a pound for 240 pence to the pound, before we decimalised.
A dime is 10 cent, but that's just the name for the coin. Shillings used to be a part of the number system which was split into three tiers, not two with a decimal place.
Bob used to be slang for a shilling, not a pound.
We've never had the euro. The Republic of Ireland uses the euro, but if you call them British you'll get into real trouble.