On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:59, Jean-Marc Chaton wrote:
> * Pigeon [Wed, 29/01/2003 at 18:22 +]
> >
> > British phones had a # key on the keypad for several years before the
[snip]
> > symbol. They mostly call it "hash" now.
> In France, we call it the "sharp" key (dièse in French), coz the sign
* Pigeon [Wed, 29/01/2003 at 18:22 +]
>
> British phones had a # key on the keypad for several years before the
> exchanges were upgraded to the point where you could actually do
> anything with it. When this happened, the recorded help/instruction
> messages were at something of a loss as to
Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Pigeon wrote:
>>
>>> OK, Just to make things more complicated British money changed
[...]
>>
>> Some more wacky fun facts about British money.
[...]
>>
>> [ ... ]
>
>Here's some more:
What a wonderful
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:56, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > A pound sterling is so-called because it was originally the value of a
> > pound of "sterling" silver. sterling comes from Easterling which is what
> > German Hanseatic mercha
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:56:26AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > A pound sterling is so-called because it was originally the value of a
> > pound of "sterling" silver. sterling comes from Easterling which is what
> > German Han
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Pigeon wrote:
>
>> OK, Just to make things more complicated British money changed around
>> 1970 from 1 pound = 240 pennies from 1 pound = 100 new pennies, ie.
>> the value of the pound stayed the same but the penny changed. The
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> A pound sterling is so-called because it was originally the value of a
> pound of "sterling" silver. sterling comes from Easterling which is what
> German Hanseatic merchants were called during the middle ages.
I need to read less
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:16:43PM -0500, David P James wrote:
> Pigeon was roused into action on 2003-01-29 13:38 and wrote:
> >
> >How the British came to pronounce "lieutenant" "leftenant", I still
> >don't know. The American pronunciation "lootenant" is surely much
> >closer to the original - F
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Pigeon wrote:
> OK, Just to make things more complicated British money changed around
> 1970 from 1 pound = 240 pennies from 1 pound = 100 new pennies, ie.
> the value of the pound stayed the same but the penny changed. The
> 1/240-pound sort of pennies are now called "old pen
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:48:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > I tend to use terms like "quid" or "pound" because I still expect
> > pound (?) signs to be turned into hash (#) signs by non-British
> > equipment. To make matters worse,
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:00:20PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Charlie Reiman said:
> > "#" has several names but most will be lost on non-techies. I'm not even
> > sure why we call it the pound symbol since we Americans usually abbreviate
> > pounds (the unit of weigh
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:32, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:31:58AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > > 1 pound = 240 (old) pennies
> > > 1 pound = 100 new pennies
> > > Quid = pound (slang)
> > > Pence = alternative form of
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:31:58AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > 1 pound = 240 (old) pennies
> > 1 pound = 100 new pennies
> > Quid = pound (slang)
> > Pence = alternative form of Pennies
> > Shilling = 12 old pennies = 5 new pennies
> > H
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > OT: so where's the lexicon that relates quid, guinea, bob,
> > shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant
> > north-americaner? :)
> 1 pound = 240 (old) pennies
>
On Tue 28 Jan 2003 16:13:56 +(+), Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > OT: so where's the lexicon that relates quid, guinea, bob,
> > shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant
> > north-americaner? :)
>
> OK, Just to make things mor
On Tue 28 Jan 2003 16:48:04 +(-0600), Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> How the hell do I type a euro character? :-)
You'd need iso-8859-15 encoding (locale en_US@euro perhaps?). Euro is 0xA4 which is ¤
(looks like a twinkly star) in iso-8859-1.
Hopefully there's a suitable compose sequence if you
This one time, at band camp, Charlie Reiman said:
> "#" has several names but most will be lost on non-techies. I'm not even
> sure why we call it the pound symbol since we Americans usually abbreviate
> pounds (the unit of weight) with the equally cryptic "lbs."
Comes from the latin libra, which
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:48:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> The '#' has a crapload of names: some I know are
[...]
> 4) "octothorpe"; I guess this is the typographical name or something.
> I even used to know _why_, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
In a book I have, it gives '#' a meaning o
Charlie Reiman wrote:
"#" has several names
. I like hash because then the omnipresent
"#!" becomes the hash-bang, or shebang for short.
I've heard "#!" referred to as splat-bang; I kind of like that.
Kent
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On 28 January 2003 at 16:13,
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> misleading answer. Puzzles me a bit - I thought # was an American
> symbol anyway - does it just have two American names, one of which is
> better at crossing oceans? (Because "pound" is heavy, and sinks?)
I think the official name
> -Original Message-
> From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]
>
> I tend to use terms like "quid" or "pound" because I st
Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I tend to use terms like "quid" or "pound" because I still expect
> pound (£) signs to be turned into hash (#) signs by non-British
> equipment. To make matters worse, Americans sometimes call hash signs
> pound signs, so asking "did my pound signs come out OK"
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> I tend to use terms like "quid" or "pound" because I still expect
> pound (£) signs to be turned into hash (#) signs by non-British
> equipment. To make matters worse, Americans sometimes call hash signs
> pound signs, so asking "did my poun
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> OT: so where's the lexicon that relates quid, guinea, bob,
> shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant
> north-americaner? :)
OK, Just to make things more complicated British money changed around
1970 from 1 pound = 240 p
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