Re: CHAT: Handles/netnames (was: I need an artist ::: and articles)

Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> > >> >Just my tupennorth.
> > >>
> > >> Add my two rU to that.
> > >
> > >?
> >
> > I assumed 'tupennorth' was some form of currency, a parallell to
> > 'tuppence'. A rU is the least worth coin in the Outlawed Lands, a
> > hundred rU equals one kIr, and ten rU will buy you a soda.
>
> Yep.  A contraction of "two pence worth".  I just didn't know what a rU
> was, but now I do, and what it'll buy!  And seems to be a decimal system,
> as well.
Is tupennorth an English word, or is it Brithenig or Kenru or
something? How do you pronounce it?