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Comment by jen on April 25, 2011 at 4:47pm

anyone need a last minute bike for the tweed ride???

http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/bik/2346236578.html

Comment by SlyRed on April 25, 2011 at 2:51am

Seen on the Brooks England Blog.  How very, very English.  Who knows what would become of the language if left to us Americans. ;^D

Comment by Alan Lloyd on April 12, 2011 at 3:34am

Or maybe it was "three ha'peth" - arrggghhhh, me mind's gone!

Comment by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 12, 2011 at 3:31am

Money, it's a drag...

 

Now I've got Pink Floyd in my head :(  Better than Rebecca Black I guess!

Comment by Alan Lloyd on April 12, 2011 at 3:22am

Correcting my earlier post, it was more common to say (just) "a ha'peth" as in “why spoil the ship for a ha'peth of tar?”

Comment by SlyRed on April 12, 2011 at 3:21am

La, la, la, la la la . . . I'm just ignoring this thread.

 

Let me know when you want to talk about bicycles again.

Comment by Alan Lloyd on April 12, 2011 at 3:18am

Farthing: last minted in 1956, ceased to be legal tender in 1960, there were 960 of the little blighters to the pound (sterling).

Halfpenny/ha'penny: ceased to be legal tender in 1969, but proof coins minted in 1970 to commemerate the (passing of the) old currency - the day after Valentine's Day, February 15th, in 1971 ...

Two (old) pennies, 240 to the pound sterling, isn't event worth a (new) pence, 100 to the pound sterling and a ha'penny is pretty much the same (physical) size as the new 2p coin.

 - apologies to Darrell/Sly for the throbbing headache!

Comment by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 12, 2011 at 2:55am

How about the term, "Not worth tuppence" -which comes from two pence and is related to "My $.02 worth" which is advice that really isn't worth anything -or only what you paid for it since two pennies really isn't anything these days. 

 

English, the language that hides in dark corners and mugs other languages as they walk by to steal stray vocabulary when it isn't just  making up its own variations. 

Comment by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 12, 2011 at 2:48am

Imperial Monies...

 

Compare a Penny and a Farthing (1/4-penny)

And thus we get the term "Penny Farthing"

 

Wheels within wheels.  Everything is related :-D

Comment by Carl on April 12, 2011 at 2:44am

Sly,

it's probably just a result of what people find important. Many people find the event and the costumes to be the most important things to document. Some people are more interested in the bikes and who owns them. Just a difference of interest...

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