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From: pom@under..ARPA (Peter O. Mikes)
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Subject: Dollar <- Tolar <- Thaler
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 20:37:43 EDT
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Re: Really really  very last words on Dollar  - was Origin of "$", hopefully the last word!  (was: Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte))

Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,sci.lang
  hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) Writes
Apart from the origin of the "$" sign, the name dollar comes from the
germanic thaler,
	This is true, BUT, if you really want to be accurate, 
  Thaler (german for plate [reference to a VERY LARGE gold coin]) migrated
 into Dollar via a czech  pronounciation and spelling of Thaler as Tolar,
 reverse path to Budwaiser ( german version of (now) Czech city Bud^ejovice).

and (if you really are into trivia ) Maria-Theresa's Tolar was made from gold
mined in Jachymov (which, after being striped of gold and silver) still 
provided U238+U235 which Curies used in ther experiments .. and  can  you 
name other 3 to 5 words which entred english via this Czech-or-German 
( or Sudetenland) gateway?

 BTW
> with the diaresis usually only in texts for students of Russian, or
>for disambiguation.  
>               -- Judy Grass (ex-Slavic Linguist)
 Judy is absolutely correct - when students include Russian children
 
>alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy) writes
>  "sh" sometimes have a line 
 This is true too, BUT it is 1) not an accent or modifier but rather a
readibility help ( since sh looks like triple u - easy to confuse with m
 in careless handwriting) 2) It is (like similar tradition of 'crossing 7'
to differentiate it from 1  ) discouraged at school and used mostly by older
generation.
	

     Yours  Peter || pom    alias   pom@under.s1.gov ||  pom@s1-under.UUCP