Re: [Change topic -> OT] Pence/Pennies
From: Larry Kilgallen (Kilgallen_at_SpamCop.net)
Date: 07/30/03
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Date: 30 Jul 2003 15:20:22 -0500
In article <bg97h9$lmhcv$1@ID-120847.news.uni-berlin.de>, "John Travell" <john@jomatech.com> writes:
> We would not, for example, quote the price of a meat pie as 73 pennies. We
> would specify 73 pence. Maybe a pint of beer as 2 pounds 48 pence (about 4
> dollars, and yes, some are even more expensive!).
> We would however, say 'a pound and a penny' if it were the appropriate
> price.
>
> So.
> Pence is all values between 2 and 99,
> Penny is only for the singular item, and
> Pennies is only for multiple instances of the unit value coin.
That is the same as the US, except we use "cents" rather than "pence".
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