[Loch-Ruadh] Speaking Forsoothly - Daily Lesson 26

[Julie Self]

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>From: Pádraig Ruad Ó Maolagáin <padraig_ruad at irishbard.org>
>Reply-To: padraig_ruad at irishbard.org,"Shire of Loch Ruadh,  Kingdom of 
>Ansteorra, SCA, Inc." <loch-ruadh at lists.ansteorra.org>
>To: loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] Speaking Forsoothly - Daily Lesson 26
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:52:20 -0600 (CST)
>
>Daily Lesson 26
>
>Money – 1
>
>(Note:  As we have been dealing in Elizabethan/Shakepearian English, so
>too will our discussion of money reference English coinage.)
>
>All coins, including pennies, are silver or gold.  There is no copper
>money.  Though older coins may be debased with copper or brass, no one
>would mistake a shilling for a penny, for example, as the difference
>(size, weight) is very obvious.
>
>There is no paper money. You cannot, for example, have a 5-pound note.
>
>The basic denominations are pounds, shillings, and pence:
>
>12 pence make a shilling
>20 shillings make a pound
>
>In writing, the abbreviation for:
>penny is d
>shilling is s
>pound is £
>
>Example:  2 pounds, 3 shillings and 4 pennies would be written:
>           £2 3s 4d
>           and spoke of would be
>           "2 pounds, 3-and-4"
>
>A penny is a coin. One of them is always a penny, not a pence. The term
>pence is used ONLY for amounts of more than one penny, and refers to
>worth.
>
>If you have a pouchful of 1-penny coins, you have several pennies, which
>values several pence.
>
>Two pennies (or a two-penny coin) are tuppence (TUP-pence).
>Three pennies are thruppence (THRUP-pence).
>
>Shakespearian Word/Phrase of the Day:
>	Coil – trouble or strife.
>	“Belike we shall find him in the midst of the coil; ‘tis there he seems
>most happy.”
>
>Padraig
>--
>Nunc est bibendum.
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