Cheaper than a chip wrapper

Ben Blaney bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along
the lines of:

As long as you don't go singing the praises of the Merkins, you'll be
okay. I hope. Pretend you're French.

Not forgotten. Ta ;-)

 

Would sir like to remove his foot from his mouth and read the text
again?

So if there is any attribution misdirection I suggest you take it up
with oggers..

Phil

 

And the word lira means.. <roll of drums>

A pound!

Or at least it is derived from the Latin "Libra" meaning a pound. Which
is why the sterling symbol is a stylised L figure..

Phil

 

There's a couple of others as well - Rumanian Lei and Bulgarian Leva
(not 100% sure of this one's derivation) spring to mind.

As is (was) the Italian Lira symbol. Confused many first-time British
visitors, it did. Does the Turkish Lira use the same symbol as well?

 

Ace bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Turkish_Lira

http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/ytlkampanya/banknotes/banknotes.htm is handy

 

And the french livre. As a unit of both weight and currency, it kind of
fits in well with libra, s in the astological sign symbolised by the pair
of scales.

I thought the Turks used Dinar, or it that the old yugoslavia?

Dinar = Denarius. Latin again...

 

Still to be heard in parts of the French-speaking world when folk are
ordering butter, cheese or the like. "Un demi-livre de beurre,
s'il-vous plait."

Duh, I wonder why that is?

No, and probably, amongst many others, notably many arab states.

Just a penny to the Lira's pound, hence the 'd' symbol used in Britain
until 1971.

 

Ace bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

The old Yugoslavia used the "Dinar". Many Arab states do too, but not
all.

 

Ah.

Clearly cent is latin based too as a 1/100th, eg centurion. Where is dollar
derived from?

 

And why would that be pray?

Phil

 

tallbloke wrote

A Native Merkin Indian word for bugger all.

As in: You give me 10 dollar, I give you half a continent.

 

Etymology: Dutch or Low German daler, from German Taler, short for
Joachimstaler, from Sankt Joachimsthal, Bohemia, where talers were
first made

 

heh, wonder if dole is related.

 

Cent == centum (100).

Dollar:

[Low German daler, taler, from German Taler, short for Joachimstaler,
after Joachimstal (Jáchymov), a town of northwest Czech Republic where
similar coins were first minted.]

Phil

 

Look, this isn't particularly important, but your post read as
follows:

<cut and pasted exactly>

Now, Ogden's message quoted some of my text. Yours doesn't. So what
my is name is doing in there?

 

Interesting, the mines there yielded not only silver, but the first
discovered Uranium.

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~rochlin/ushist.html

 

Hmm - which is very different to how it appears in slrn (hence my
confusion)

The long answer is the same as the short

I dunno. It wasn't in slrn yer honour..

Phil