Money question for the UK folks
One quid is the same as one pound? One pence is the same as one penny? How many pence in a pound? If something costs 10 'bob', how much is that? That is all for now. Next time it will be questions on Manchester slang from Coronation Street, and Yorkshire slang from reading All Creatures Great and Small. I won't inflict my Shakespearean English questions on you, though, so I am being merciful! |
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Mady wrote: David and I watch quite a bit of British television and movies and read books from that part of the world too. I get confused about the money, so thought I would ask you guys! Here is what I think but please correct me if I am wrong. One quid is the same as one pound? Yes that is right One pence is the same as one penny? no, before decimalisation we had pennies, 240 in a pound. now we have pence. How many pence in a pound? 100 If something costs 10 'bob', how much is that? 10 old shillings, or 50 pence That is all for now. Next time it will be questions on Manchester slang from Coronation Street, and Yorkshire slang from reading All Creatures Great and Small. I won't inflict my Shakespearean English questions on you, though, so I am being merciful! |
| Thank you! |
| here's another question.... UK people talk about weight in ''stones'' ..how much does a stone weigh in pounds? and who came up with the weight? |
| 14 stone to a pound......for if you weight 10 stones you'll be 140 lbs. |
| 2.2 lbs to the kilo 100 new pence to the pound we have 1 pence coin 2 pence coin 5 pence coin 10 pence coin 20 pence coin 50 pence coin 1 pound coin ( no notes anymore) 2 pound coin £5 pound note £10 pound note £20 pound note £50 pound note Person from Manchester is a Manc aka nothern monkey  its 14 lbs to a stone also watch lock stock & two smoking barrels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owj84ejz ... re=related |
Yorkshire slang sorted  http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/dictionary.htm |
sixpence wrote: Oh I will have some fun with that!! |
| Heh, I just watched the movie "Attack the Block". I am pretty good with various UK dialects, can understand most of them. I couldn't understand anyone in this movie however. |
Dont forget the East End slang for money  A squid - A quid or a £1.00 A score - £20.00 A ton - £100 A monkey - £500 A donkey - £1,000 Can't remember the rest off the top of me head......... |
| I adore rhyming slang... especially when the rhyming word has been dropped. Money -> Bread and Honey -> Bread or another of my faves: £1,000 (One Thousand) -> Grand -> Bag of Sand -> Bag So if I ask for a bag of bread will I get a thousand Pounds? |
| I think a great way to learn or at least pick up some rhyming slang is to watch the great British comedy 'Only Fools and Horses', it's a little old now but it's brilliant for learning dialect, and also shows a pretty accurate way of life in south London in the 1980's & 90's. |
| I watched All Creatures Great and Small and, of course, I watch Corrie like many Canadians do (although we are six months behind, darn it!). I still can't believe such a geographically small place has so many accents. |
| We don't have accents!!!!!!! We all talk proper like! |
| Isn't a guinea a pound and a shilling? |
Paula O. wrote: Isn't a guinea a pound and a shilling? It was but as we don' have 'shillings' anymore - we don't have guineas either! |
Here's a few Schillings for you    |
| http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/small-pet ... a-pig.ashx and a guinea too.  |
| Ok, not a money question, but still a question for the U.K. folks. I have figured out that a 'butty' (or buddy?) is a sandwich. So is a 'sarny' (forgive the spelling). Is there a difference between the two? Next week we will discuss the word 'chuffed'! |
Butty i think is more said in the north, and sarnie is more said in the south. Or the other way round  And no there is no difference they both mean sandwich, And for chuffed , it means well done/praise to yourself. for example " I am well chuffed with that " basically means happy. " I am well happy with that " chuffed - proud of something |
| Somewhat off topic, but for fellow Canadians, what do you think of our new plastic money? It's kind of cool, Aussies have plastic money too, though I don't know if it's as colourful as ours LOL |
Willowsprite wrote: Somewhat off topic, but for fellow Canadians, what do you think of our new plastic money? It's kind of cool, Aussies have plastic money too, though I don't know if it's as colourful as ours LOL Plastic money?? I think we need pictures of this! |
| The notes are made of plastic paper. I love it, you can forget to take cash out of your pocket, wash it and it's still fine. And it's quite hard to tear as well. It's fairly colorful.  those white patches you can see on the right of the notes are actually clear windows in the note. It makes them harder to counterfeit apparently. |
| Not to be indelicate, but does that mean it would survive being ingested by, say, a sheepie? |
Interesting.  I'm guessing it's soft and flexible? True folding money? I was thinking stiff like a credit card, but that wouldn't really be too handy! |
| Interesting--it is colorful! |
Mady wrote: Ok, not a money question, but still a question for the U.K. folks. I have figured out that a 'butty' (or buddy?) is a sandwich. So is a 'sarny' (forgive the spelling). Is there a difference between the two? Next week we will discuss the word 'chuffed'! Butty/buttie normally refers to a chip butty roll (basically its one ingredient with lots of butter on a roll- hence the butty) Sarnie is a sandwich Chuffed is I am so pleased with such and such. Sometimes we will say I am chuffedd to bits because Esher did xand y (for example) Hope that helps! |
Mim wrote: The notes are made of plastic paper. I love it, you can forget to take cash out of your pocket, wash it and it's still fine. And it's quite hard to tear as well. It's fairly colorful. those white patches you can see on the right of the notes are actually clear windows in the note. It makes them harder to counterfeit apparently. Ohhhh I love the colours - it looks like monpoly money LOL - I love it when the Bank of England design a bank note and inform everyone this note is really hard to counterfeit. Then the newspapers and news will be full of how to spot a counterfeit note as they are already in circulation and this note was only issued during the week. I laugh every time. |
Mim wrote: The notes are made of plastic paper. I love it, you can forget to take cash out of your pocket, wash it and it's still fine. And it's quite hard to tear as well. It's fairly colorful. those white patches you can see on the right of the notes are actually clear windows in the note. It makes them harder to counterfeit apparently. Cool, the colours are almost identical to ours except our 100 is brown, 50 is red, 20 is green, 10 is purple and 5 is blue. |
Mady wrote: Not to be indelicate, but does that mean it would survive being ingested by, say, a sheepie? Fortunately I haven't had that experiement foisted on me yet.  But yes, I suspect it would survive the experience. The plastic is thin enough to fold but quite tough and surprisingly difficult to tear, so it might even prove a challenge for a determined sheepie. I'm not sure whether I'd want to be involved in the retrieval operation though. But at least soapy/disinfectant water is a viable part of said operation. You're welcome to come visit and try some experimenting though.  |
Mim wrote: I'm not sure whether I'd want to be involved in the retrieval operation though. But at least soapy/disinfectant water is a viable part of said operation. You're welcome to come visit and try some experimenting though. No thanks!! I have another word to ask about. Of course it is from Corrie. I think that to 'keep stum' about something is to keep quiet, but is it spelled 'stum'? In other Corrie news, my favourite new expression from Corrie is for someone to have a 'face like a slapped backside'. I just need to find the right moment to use that in real life! |
| The really bad thing about changing money "frequently", is that normal people can't tell the real from the counterfeit for a while. I don't handle money very often, almost literally EVERYTHING I do is via credit card and online. I have some money in my wallet for emergencies, and the occasional cup of coffee. There seem to be a few versions of US money in circulation, so I wouldn't be surprised to find money that I really didn't recognize. That's bad. |
| I'm reading a lot of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman lately, and I have to ask: What the heck is "tuppence"? |
| twopence: a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies. Tuppence, is an old word for a coin...im too young to use it haha!! My nan still does. Now we have 1p,2p,5p,10p,20p,50p,£1,£2,£5note,£10note,£20note,£50note(rarely) http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=tuppen ... 29,r:6,s:0 Basically means 2 pennies, just an olfashioned word for 2p (i think) OR it can mean old fashioned slang, depending on how it written. My nan sometimes says "hello tuppence" But genereally means 2p |
SamHeinous wrote: I'm reading a lot of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman lately, and I have to ask: What the heck is "tuppence"? I love Terry Pratchett. I sometimes wish he would come with a dictionary. |
| Pratchett is hilarious. Thanks for explaining tuppence! |
| Tuppence is an english nickname. My grandmother who had a friend called Tuppence or "Tupp", I have not idea what her real name was  But I also know of men with the nickname Tuppence.I think it was usually bestowed on a child. A tuppence coin was small, so I think the nickname was given to a small child but I'm not 100% on that. |
| That would make sense, in the context I'm seeing it in. It seems to apply to both. |
SamHeinous wrote: That would make sense, in the context I'm seeing it in. It seems to apply to both. Tuppence is two pennies in today's world and I believe the slang also relates to a child, but could be wrong. Terry Practhett is brilliant - I love his work, such a shame he is so ill. |
Mady wrote: Mim wrote: I'm not sure whether I'd want to be involved in the retrieval operation though. But at least soapy/disinfectant water is a viable part of said operation. You're welcome to come visit and try some experimenting though. No thanks!! I have another word to ask about. Of course it is from Corrie. I think that to 'keep stum' about something is to keep quiet, but is it spelled 'stum'? In other Corrie news, my favourite new expression from Corrie is for someone to have a 'face like a slapped backside'. I just need to find the right moment to use that in real life! Yep "keep stum" means to keep quiet/pretent you didnt hear such and such! LOL some of their sayings make me laugh and at the time I dont think about them until someone asks what does this mean. I'm currently learning Mandarin as my tutor is learning English - she mentioned at our last lesson that she was going to be meeting the big cheese, but I actually thought she meant the name of a girl dog (not sure I can swear hence the fill in the gap). I had to ask her what she meant, thankfully she has a programme on her Iphone where she can type in the Mandarin and then it changes to English. We had such a laugh as she looked up the word I thought it was. |
| That is funny! I love languages and the silliness that can result from mistakes, as long as everyone has a sense of humour about it. If I could live a thousand lifetimes, I would love to learn them all. |
| We hosted many exchange students over the years, and we got some funny phrases as the kids learned English better, especially slang. Here's my all time favorite!: My kids were teens, and they used to run out to the van yelling "I'm shotgun" to ride in the front. Well, Manu (German student) thought he had it down, and he ran out the door yelling "I'm gunshot"!!! OMG, I think we all about died, and were laughing our guts out! Amazing how switching around those 2 words totally changed the meaning! |
| Kim you will have to come to the UK with the sheepies & husbond |
Parwaz wrote: Kim you will have to come to the UK with the sheepies & husbond I would be there in a heartbeat but you folks have these darn quarantine laws! I have always, since reading the James Herriot books dozens of times, imagined myself striding through the countryside, dog at my side. Then, being a Coronation Street fan, I would head to the city for a few days of pints and fish and chips (and a few curries, too, for good measure), on a quest to discover what 'brown sauce' was that you folks put on your food. Then, somehow, I would end up having supper with Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant, followed by drinks with Terry Pratchett. I have my holiday all planned! You just might have to lend me a sheepie or two to accompany me. |
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