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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
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Date: 10 May 89 05:29:38 GMT
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In article <1334@nusdhub.UUCP> rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) writes:

>>Just because you (culutrally) have chosen to use a strange unit
>>name for your currency dson't mean that every refrence to that
>>unit refres to your curency. 

In article <8905081532.AA02862@beaches.hub.toronto.edu> thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) writes:

>Noting that the words 'peso' and 'lira' both mean 'pound',  I'd say that
>those of us whose currency is not named after a unit of weight are
>the ones with the strange units.

The Thaler was a troy ounce of silver, of greater purity than the
Sterling pound of silver.  The U.S.A. didn't choose a strange unit,
just a strange spelling.  And they've only inflated it 30 times
(i.e. down to 3.3 original cents) instead of 100 times.

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Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net)
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