The English resisted the decimal currency system for years because it was too difficult.What is this sorcery?
Twelve pennies to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound. Cruxton Abbey pound, of course....
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Barb’s indiscretion
- Thread starter thehangingtree
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America didn't... perhaps we and the Brits got off on the wrong step....
Thank you, Tree. Of course I know how to drive a standard transmission. It’s not hitting things that I have trouble with.
What is this sorcery?
Twelve pennies to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound. Cruxton Abbey pound, of course....
This might help you, from Australia's decimalisation advertising campaign circa 1965 (decimalisation Feb 1966).
I know Britain didn't change until 1971!
I was a preschooler but I remember the jingle, to the tune of Click Go The Shears
Is that a euphemism Tree?
