OPM – Acronym for Other People's Money. This list not only contains the countless ways to speak, write or say the word money, but also what are the meanings behind each phrase or term. Flim/flimsy - five pounds (£5), early 1900s, so called because of the thin and flimsy paper on which five pound notes of the time were printed. Yard may be pluralized, for example 2 yards, or two yards = 2, 000, 000, 000. Tourist Attractions. Slang names for amounts of money. Today's crossword puzzle clue is a quick one: Vegetable whose name is also slang for "money". English money a little more than four shillings.. That's about 20p. So, we lost 'two shillings', 'two bob' or 'florin' and gained....... the 'ten-pee'. The 1986 Christmas Day episode, heavily promoted by the popular media, in which Den handed divorce papers to his wife Angie, attracted the biggest ever recorded UK TV audience (30.
See the guinea history above. Arabic al-karsufa became Spanish alcachofa, which in turn became Italian articiocco, which was then borrowed into English as artichoke. Fetti – This term originated from the Spanish term 'Feria' which means money, of course. Christmas Decorations.
By the late 1500s the distorted slang term tester (alongside variations above) had developed, coinciding with the coin's depreciation and debasing of the metal, so that tester became specific slang for a sixpennny piece. Delog/dilog/dlog - gold or gold money, logically extending more loosely to refer to money generally, first recorded in the mid-1800s. One who sells vegetable is called. Bluey - five pounds (£5), and especially a five pound note, because its colour was mainly blue for most of the latter half of the 1900s. Today a platinum cylinder 'control' version of the 16 ounce Avoirdupois Pound exists at the London Standards Office, in the custody of the Board of Trade.
When first issued the 50p coin was bigger than the thin miserable 50p coin of recent times, which was introduced in 1998. 7a Monastery heads jurisdiction. Vegetable word histories. In English, a cabbage patch is a place or thing of no importance, while cabbage head is a stupid person. 1968 - 5p and 10p coins were introduced (23 Apr, St George's Day), at the same size and weight as the shilling and florin (two shillings), for which they acted until decimalisation. 1978 - The first small-size (Isaac Newton design) one pound note was introduced on 9 February. The earliest known cheque was issued in 1659.
The English word potato is originally from the Taino word for "sweet potato, " batata. Coins are legal tender throughout the United Kingdom for the following [below] amounts... ". Lettuce came into English by way of Old French laitue, whose speakers had borrowed the word from Latin lactuca. Some of our more common vegetable names come from Italian. Frog Skins – Cash money in general. By 1526, Spanish had borrowed this word as patata, "potato, " preserving the word batata for "sweet potato. " An obscure point of nostalgic trivia about the tanner is (thanks J Veitch) a rhyme, from around the mid-1900s, sung to the tune of Rule Britannia: "Rule Brittania, two tanners make a bob, three make eighteen pence and four two bob…" I am informed also since mentioning this here (thanks to the lady from London) who recalls her father signing the rhyme in the 1950s, in which the words 'one-and-sixpence' were used instead of 'eighteen pence'. 55 grams and comprised 23 carat gold, equal to 95. Vegetable whose name is also slang for "money" NYT Crossword. I was sent this additional clarification about the silver threepenny piece (thanks C Mancini, Dec 2007) provided by Joseph Payne, Assistant Curator of the Royal Mint: "... The 3d was still the size of the old silver thrupence that you had before the 12-sided thing. Food Named After Places.
The word 'Penny' is derived from old Germanic language. There is a lot more about copper coins in the money history above. Comfort Foods Puzzle 20. A price of 'two and six', or 'half a crown' was 2/6 or 2/6d. No Refrigeration Needed.
Gadgets And Electronics. Coins were the only form of money up until 1633, when the first 'banknote', actually a goldsmith's note, was issued. There seems no explanation for long-tailed other than being a reference to extended or larger value. Slang for notes then, as now, is commonly 'folding money' or 'folding stuff'.
If anyone has further information about this please let me know. Dan Word © All rights reserved. Stiver also earlier referred to any low value coin. This problem affected less than 250, 000 coins of the 136 million 20p pieces minted in 2008-09 and was due to the previous obverse (the 'heads' side) being used with the new reverse (the 'tails' side) design, meaning the year of issue did not feature at all. Ton - commonly one hundred pounds (£100). Origins of dib/dibs/dibbs are uncertain but probably relate to the old (early 1800s) children's game of dibs or dibstones played with the knuckle-bones of sheep or pebbles. Whatever, kibosh meant a shilling and sixpence (1/6). Tomato is originally from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The 1p coins carry the words 'one penny', and the 2p coins carry the words 'two pence', so we cannot blame the coins themselves, just the unimaginative way they were introduced. The bi-colour £2 coin was not introduced until 1998 because of technical problems, officially due to concerns raised by the vending industry, but some mischievous folk have suggested that it was more due to the robustness of the physical design, which under certain circumstances (e. g., children throwing them at brick walls) failed to prevent the inner and outer parts separating. Where the version ends with 'pny' (shortening of penny) it would always be followed by the 'bit' suffix. Origins are not certain. Incidentally garden gate is also rhyming slang for magistrate, and the plural garden gates is rhyming slang for rates.
As mentioned, at decimalisation the two shillings and one shilling coins continued in circulation because they precisely translated into the new 10p and 5p values. The Easterling area was noted for its 92. Bands – Since most people with large rolls of cash need rubber bands to hold them together, this where the word comes from. The one pound coin was arguably a missed opportunity to design something special and lovely, like the thrupenny bit. The word Shilling has similar origins. Arguably the word bob became so popular as we might question the word's slang status, for example the Boy Scouts and Cubs 'Bob-a Job' week tradition, (see Bob-a-Job above), was officially publicised and recognised for a couple of decades in British society pre-decimalisation. Single colour nickel-brass commemorative £2 coins were issued earlier, first in 1986 for the Commonwealth Games in Scotland. It's no thrupenny bit, but at least it has a touch of character, although too thick to be as good a functioning plectrum as a sixpence (which apparently Brian May of Queen still favours). More recently (1900s) the slang 'a quarter' has transfered to twenty-five pounds. More detail about UK coinage is available from, and more detail about banknotes is available from Legal Tender: The phrase 'legal tender' is commonly thought to refer to currency that can be used to pay for things, or referring to money that will be accepted by banks and has not been de-monetised or withdrawn from circulation, however the actual meaning of the term 'legal tender' is more technical, and derives from legal practice and terminology relating to the settlement of debts in courts. A further suggestion (ack S Kopec) refers to sixpence being connected with pricing in the leather trade. These tokens were valid in the brewery and in Ansells pubs for a pint of mild beer, but could be exchanged for other drinks if the difference in price was paid.