Re: USAGE: Currencies and -s

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>BP Jonsson wrote:
>> And why?  Because in each lg they got their own plural formation.  And
>> besides there was once an English coin called "Crown".  Last but not least
>> that's what the word means(*)
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>Except that English speakers do not speak about "crowns" with reference
>to currency unless they want to sound like an eighteenth century Enlightenment
>philosopher, so we don't use that term.  :)
The only people who do on a regular basis are numismatists, for
whom it's a semi-technical term meaning "large coin with no
reference to origin or denomination". Also specifically to the
various British 5/- bits (like the 1953 Coronation Crown, etc.)
or the newer L5.oo pieces.

Padraic.

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