Re: Trig test

Roger Hunt said:
Frank Erskine wrote
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:27:54 +0100, Roger Hunt
Frank Erskine wrote

Anyway, what's the matter with just calling it "a penny"? :-)

I think perhaps it is referred to as a "new" (whatever) to indicate a
deep-seated disgust with this new coinage. Its so fiddly.

Yebbut why a "piece"?

Perhaps it is an indication of the beginnings of the Age of Unnecessary
Words that we seem to live in today.

It's not a new usage, thobut. I unforget thrupenny pieces, which were little
brassy things with several sides and a portcullis. Not often, they were
usually just threppence, but they could be pieces too.

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