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Clemens Zeitlhofer
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:04 pm
Post subject: Re: "pences" |
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Molly Mockford wrote:
| Quote: | At 18:44:10 on Tue, 2 Nov 2004, John Hall <nospam_nov03@jhall.co.uk
wrote in <Hezs3IE6V9hBFwGL@jhall.demon.co.uk>:
In article <cm8ha8$q9e$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>,
John Smith <user@example.net> writes:
I'm not a native speaker, can anyone tell me the differences between
penny, pees, pences ??
"thruppence" have died out.
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I gave mine to the British Museum
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Luke
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:01 pm
Post subject: Re: "pences" |
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Molly Mockford wrote:
| Quote: | We've never really recovered from decimalisation of the currency, have
we? But I thought I'd heard all the ghastly permutations such as "five
pees". Until today, when I heard a radio advert (for one of the many
cheap calls providers" which referred, over and over again, to "pences".
That advert must have been through many, many hands, from the person who
wrote it to the people who approved it, to the director who recorded it
and the actors who voiced it. Can nobody distinguish between a singular
and a plural any more?
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Hang on one moment, I've just heard this advert. It is voiced by Tom
Baker, who is appearing to copy his eccentric narrator character from
the TV comedy show "Little Britain". It is the sort of tongue-in-cheek
thing this character would say and is not meant to be taken seriously. |
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JHC
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:34 am
Post subject: Re: "pences" |
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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:30:43 +0000, Laura F Spira
<laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote:
On Friday, in article
418B8438.9050007@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk "Laura F Spira" wrote:
Just "two bob". The only coin I have ever heard regularly referred to as
a "bit" in my lifetime was the thruppenny one.
"Sixpenny bit"? (Vs "sixpence", which is a monetary sum and not
necessarily indicative of its being in a single coin.)
Never! A tanner, maybe, but usually sixpence.
And what about 'half a sixpence' as in the book, the play, the song? |
The half a sixpence being a lover's token
JM
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