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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #25 on: April 25, 2007, 12:28:06 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 25, 2007, 06:35:24 AM
Yeah, I'd live in a 4 square foot house, downgraded from 1,800 or so...

you better redo your math, you mean 250,000 sq foot
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2007, 12:35:10 PM »
Quote from: charby on April 25, 2007, 11:28:06 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 25, 2007, 06:35:24 AM
Yeah, I'd live in a 4 square foot house, downgraded from 1,800 or so...

you better redo your math, you mean 250,000 sq foot

Uh no, I'm not related to your or any member of your family in any way...
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2007, 12:58:42 PM »
yeah Charby... it wouldn't be more than 100,000 sq feet...
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #28 on: April 25, 2007, 02:30:31 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 25, 2007, 11:35:10 AM
Quote from: charby on April 25, 2007, 11:28:06 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 25, 2007, 06:35:24 AM
Yeah, I'd live in a 4 square foot house, downgraded from 1,800 or so...

you better redo your math, you mean 250,000 sq foot

Uh no, I'm not related to your or any member of your family in any way...

If I was my family's house it would still be 1800 sq ft

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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #29 on: April 25, 2007, 05:00:36 PM »
Quote from: charby on April 25, 2007, 01:30:31 PM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 25, 2007, 11:35:10 AM
Quote from: charby on April 25, 2007, 11:28:06 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 25, 2007, 06:35:24 AM
Yeah, I'd live in a 4 square foot house, downgraded from 1,800 or so...

you better redo your math, you mean 250,000 sq foot

Uh no, I'm not related to your or any member of your family in any way...

If I was my family's house it would still be 1800 sq ft



I didn't know you were related to those effeminate French kings...
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #30 on: April 25, 2007, 05:20:21 PM »
Funny Mike!

Not related to the French kings but I am related to one whom protected them, D'Artagnan.


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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #31 on: April 25, 2007, 06:38:31 PM »
Quote from: Iain on April 24, 2007, 06:46:22 AM
Decimalisation - just another thing to attribute our 'fall' to. That and using 's' in all the wrong words.

Aside from odd bits of slang and certain archaic traditions the system has pretty much disappeared. Us post-decimalisation babies are blissfully unaware of the monetary-mathematical struggles of our forebears.

Time to hammer the final nail into pounds and ounces and our decline will be complete.

As a kid I read the Horatio Hornblower books where money was often valued in shillings, guineas, half-crowns, etc.  In 1995 or so, I happened to be emailing this English guy I ran across on the Internet who had been born in the late seventies.  I asked him to explain the money system (research on the Internet back then wasn't anything like it is today, and I wasn't about to make the effort to look it up in a library), and he said there were only pounds, and 100 pence to the pound.  I asked him didn't there used to be lots of other measurements, but he was completely unaware that there had ever been anything else.
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #32 on: April 25, 2007, 07:48:02 PM »
Quote from: charby on April 25, 2007, 04:20:21 PM
Funny Mike!

Not related to the French kings but I am related to one whom protected them, D'Artagnan.





OH! You're from the eunuch branch!

My apologies!
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #33 on: April 28, 2007, 03:41:27 AM »
Just to add a bit:

The main pre-decimal curreny units were pounds, shillings, and pence.

However, for certain purposes, particularly their abbreviations, the Latin equivilents were used:

Pounds => librae (the "£" sign is a stylised L)
shillings => solidus (also an "s", so that is straight forward)
pence => denarii (hence the "d")

The system itself was refered to as LSD (nothing to do the drug).

"Pound" (and the latin equivilent "Libra") are units of weight, and the pound (the currency unit), and various Continental currencies with similar names (e.g. Lira) were originally defined as the value of one pound of silver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lira
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_livre

 
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2007, 04:36:11 AM »
Quote from: Creeping Incrementalism on April 25, 2007, 05:38:31 PM
I asked him didn't there used to be lots of other measurements, but he was completely unaware that there had ever been anything else.

That really doesn't surprise me, well most people my age or so of my acquaintance would know, perhaps even about things like guineas, but I'm not surprised there are those that don't. It's not taught I don't think, it might be. I used to get my hands on lots of old paperbacks as a kid that prices marked up in shillings and pence (more often just d though I think)

Don't think I was even aware that there were half-pennies post-decimalisation until I was about ten and found a great collection of these unfamiliar coins whilst out on a walk. The Mint is about to re-vamp the penny whilst some are calling for it to go too.
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #35 on: April 28, 2007, 06:02:52 AM »
Mike you may have YOUR penis and I have mine.  But there sure the hell isn't OUR penis.
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #36 on: April 28, 2007, 06:29:16 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on April 28, 2007, 05:02:52 AM
Mike you may have YOUR penis and I have mine.  But there sure the hell isn't OUR penis.

You really don't understand the concept of the Royal We-We, do you?  cheesy
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #37 on: April 28, 2007, 09:40:26 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 28, 2007, 05:29:16 AM
Quote from: wmenorr67 on April 28, 2007, 05:02:52 AM
Mike you may have YOUR penis and I have mine.  But there sure the hell isn't OUR penis.

You really don't understand the concept of the Royal We-We, do you?  cheesy

As America doesn't have royalty, we have to settle for our editorial we-we.
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #38 on: April 28, 2007, 09:55:36 AM »
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As America doesn't have royalty, we have to settle for our editorial we-we.


I AM YOUR KING, PEASANT!
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #39 on: April 28, 2007, 10:02:07 AM »
Interesting stuff.

I'm now also reading that the colonial era daily allottment of rum for sailors was 1/4 pint of rum (mixed with water) twice daily at lunch and dinner.

I wonder if that is 1/4 of a 16 oz or 1/4 of a 20 oz pnt? Either way that be a pretty sturdy dose for me to be drinking before climbing around in the masts.
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #40 on: April 28, 2007, 10:02:17 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 28, 2007, 08:55:36 AM
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As America doesn't have royalty, we have to settle for our editorial we-we.


I AM YOUR KING, PEASANT!
Okay.

Hey everybody, Irwin's the king of the peasants!  grin
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« Reply #41 on: April 28, 2007, 10:11:51 AM »
Good.

Now go get me a sandwich.

Your King is hungry.
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Re: British currency colonial era
« Reply #42 on: April 30, 2007, 06:26:33 AM »
Carebear, I can think of a more accurate way to spell "peasant".  Somewhat different pronunciation, as well. Cheesy
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