In the UK, we have pounds and pence. The one pence coin abbreviated to PENNY, the two pence coin abbreviated to TUPENNY, and the old three pence coin to THRUPENNY.

In the US Dollars and Cents, Why then is a one cent coin a penny? Surely it should be a CENNY.

1 cenny eheh

because... armericans arent very original most of the time...so i wouldnt put it past us to steal someone elses coin name and never honor that thats where we got in the first place. i swear...i wonder about this place i live in

At last an answer, all day I waited after Chris had his little chuckle.

Thanks Vi, although I am sure there must be a real reason.

This is not an American bashing thread. It is a genuine thread

Lucky Euro people, do you call the Euro one cent a PENNY or a CENNY?

For those in the UK I've also been wondering, What's the difference between a pound, and a quid? And is a farthing an outdated term? Forgive my ignorance here.
[This message was edited Wed Oct 29 7:09:12 PST 2003 by NovaAngel]

NovaAngel said:

A quid is a pound like a buck is a dollar.

A farthing was a quarter of 1p outdated following decimilisation I think

PREDOMINANT said:

Thanks! I've got it straight now.

Predominant...I hope you haven't lost any sleep over this quandry!

Vashti said:

Drives me MAADADADADDDaaH,

My other one was How do you have raisins, sultanas and currants but only two types of grape, red and white? Which was which?

PREDOMINANT said:

i dont doubt this threads validity predom...and i wasnt meaning to bash america...i dont have a real answer for you. but my opionon is that we prolly stole the word...and that would not surprise me...
i wish i did have a real answer

Thrupenny, Tupenny, what does it all mean eh?!

<--- TUPENNY

Revolution said:

My tupenny ceppenys. eheheh.