Re: CHAT: Hawaiian Money (was Re: NATLANG/FONT: the euro & 01.01.02)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 15, 2001, 1:06 |
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> The reason I ask is that my confuture includes a Republic of Hawaii, and
> I was thinking that they might harken back to their earlier national
> days by naming the new currency after the old one. :-) I've already
> decided that the one-whatever bill will be nicknamed a "Lili" after
> Liliuokalani, whose face is on said bill, so perhaps "Lili" would come
> to be the colloquial term for the unit itself, like "buck" in American
> English. :-)
Is `buck' short for something? (`Buck' is also valid in Aussie English.)
Tristan
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