'penny'

In both Canada, and the US, there are 100 pennies to a Dollar. (or in this case, 107 Canadian pennies to one US dollar, but that is just this week). There are trillions of pieces of copper-colored metal, with the face value of one penny. They probably cost twice that to manufacture, but they serve the worthwhile purpose of weighing down purses and subjecting cloth pockets to inordinate stresses, thereby wearing out clothing and accessories, thusly contributing to the general economy by having people purchse more of said clothing and accessories, mostly made in China.

Clear?

DD in Vancouver

One penny, two pennies.

didn't know about Canada - but I thought it was 'Cents' and Dollars in the US

I'll go read the wiki :)

ok - read the wiki, and it just confirms what I thought !

"The one-cent coin is often called a "penny", but the U.S. Mint's official name for this coin is "cent"."

is it a throw back to english pennies ?

"Cent" as in 1 100th, centurion, centimetre (or if south of the 49th centimeTER)

The phrase "A penny for your thoughts" is never rendered as "A cent for yout thoughts". Pennies are worth one cent. One cent is represented by the physical coin called a penny.

Getting clearer and clearer.

England and America, two countries seperated by a common language!

DD

But why is it "A penny for your thoughts" but you "always have to put your 2 cents in"?

I know the basics - I was wondering the history of it.

For instance - if we can accross all those years ago with pennies - when and why did you start using Dollars / Cents instead of Pounds and Pence ?!?

Same goes for Oz - yeay use Dollars/Cents but still say Penny alot .

in a way it goes for measures too. We now HAVE to use litres Metres and Kilos instead of Gallons Feet and Pounds (some kind of crackpot euro law). Yet if you ask anyone how tall they are its feet n inches. We drive in MPH and use fuel in MPG but buy it in Litres.

I'm not even that old and I prefer the old way - the 'english' measurments

but then this could turn into a rant LOL !

Rich

we say 'Just my tuppence worth'

And don't forget we also measure nails in pennies - a 16 penny (16d) common nail, 4 penny (4d) finishing nail, etc.

true - and in old money too !

So how many stones do you weigh?

:)

Jan

LOL ! 12 Stone 10 Pounds

no idea waht it is in Kg .

if anyone doesn't know - 14Lb = 1St

and

a dozen eggs is 12 a dozen loaves is 13

:)

yeah, but in the winter we measure in centigrade, and in the summer its farenheit.....

...What are ya'll talking 'bout...? .........glad my language isn't that confusing......... lol

Roger

I don't know about cents but a dollar is a measurement of weight for precious metals (hence the silver dollar.)

Tony

I don't know about stones but I've been accused of having lead in my ass. Does that count for anything? ;o)

Tony

ah cool :) I have learned something new !

I guess the Cent's means excactly that - 1 1/100th of a dollar.

Our 'Penny' was only changed in 1967 to be 100 pennies to the pound.

We have a lot of UK "remnants" in our culture. I even found a 2 cent piece in my folks stuff the other day.

American culture has a lot of things that carry the names of their UK ancestors. Heck, some folks in the US even call Kentucky Bourbon "Whiskey".... while everyone knows that only Ireland makes that, and single malt Scotch is real whisky. ;)

KWW

We also like to give unofficial, descriptive names to th>>