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| From | Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, alt.unix.geeks |
| Subject | Re: DUC[KT] tape |
| Followup-To | alt.unix.geeks |
| Date | 2026-01-03 23:38 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <slrn10lja2q.22e1c.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <mrraraF6n51U7@mid.individual.net> <r_6cnS1Bc8LsHMX0nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <10jakoq$13ji1$5@dont-email.me> <mrtgdsFi6mnU2@mid.individual.net> <JKmdneOUIq40DcT0nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
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>> >>> On 03/01/2026 02:39, c186282 wrote: >>>> On the flip, the USA currency system IS far more >>>> clear than traditional British - 'decimal'. >> On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 08:42:02 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> The traditional British was not 'decimal' > On 1/3/26 16:35, rbowman wrote: >> That's for sure. I never did figure out pence, shillings, quid, bob, >> pounds, and so forth, between the base system and the informal names. >> Somehow I wound up with a 5 pence piece that was masquerading as a US >> dime. It's not uncommon to get Canadian coins but I've not idea how that >> one got introduced. On 2026-01-03, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote: > Well ... England ranks as one of those "most invaded" > countries. There was the apparent OP and then the > Beaker People came ... Romans ... finally Anglos, Saxons, > Normans and now Arabs. Everybody brought in their own > little systems for money and measure. For a time England > had a global empire too, and ideas from all those > colonies infiltrated as well. The language is a serious > pidgin, a mix of most everything in the world. > > So yea, expect "confused" :-) > > Somebody said "dollar" ... I think that term came > from Syria. NOT sure why the US founders picked > it up. Given alliances, I'd have expected them to > pick up 'francs' instead. 25 years ago, I assembled some notes on weird British things. Now found at http://www.beagle-ears.com/lars/pages/showpage.cgi?humor_measures.page As for the dollar: There was a fairly standard gold coin, issued by several countries. I think it was called a dubloon. It was a bit too large for everyday use, so people hacked it up into wedges 1/8 the size, referred to as "pieces of eight" or individually as "bits". One of these was the German "Joachimsthaler" - a coin minted in Joachimsthal (wherever in Germany that may be) and "thaler" smoothed down to becomme "dollar". So 25 cents = 1/4 dollar = two bits. "Haircut and shave is - two bits!!" -- Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California
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