Nontonai, I know it can hurt all too well. Since I've been working at the coin shop I hear the term all day. Can I see some Lincoln Pennies? Well, I've learned to live with it as long as they spend dollars and cents I have work. Drives our other guy nuts and he's been there over 20 years. Probably why I wait on more customers. clembo
Er actually the British do make a distiction between "pennies" and "pence." "Pennies" is the plural of a coin worth 1 pence; "pence" is the plural of an amount of money worth multiples of what one penny is worth. In other words, "3 pennies" means 3 indivudual coins, worth 1 pence each. "3 pence" refers to amount of money that same amount of coins is worth, regardless of what coins make them up (could ber a single 3 pence coin, 6 halfpennies, 12 farthings, etc.) So if "penny" is acceptable as a coin worth US 1 cent, "pennies" is the correct plural of such a coin. "Pence" would not be correct in the US since we have no unit of money called "pence" here. Er not to try to argufy any more lol...
