Re: OT currency (was Re: Quoting styles (was Re: Antipassive?))
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 31, 2008, 5:27 |
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On 30/05/08 18:21:03, Peter Collier wrote:
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> --- "Ph. D." <phil@...> wrote:
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> > We could just rename the nickel to a shilling, then
> > we could issue a coin worth $1.05 and call it a
> > guinea.
> >
> > --Ph. D.
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> You seem remarkably au fait with the old British
> currency!
Except that there are (or at least, were, in 1966, 1967 and 1969) ten
shillings to the dollar, not twenty. If it were me, I would abolish
five cents and derename the shilling (from 10 cents) here in Australia.
(Those dates being when Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, respectively,
converted from our respective pounds to our respective dollars.)