I give up - "Penny" it is.

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by hontonai, May 20, 2008.

  1. hontonai

    hontonai Registered Contrarian

    To paraphrase a well-known political figure: "I'm tired of argufying."
     
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  3. monkeyman

    monkeyman Coin Hoarder

    WHAT!!! Your giving in! I cant believe it.... :yawn:
     
  4. snaz

    snaz Registry fever

    hontonai.. that dosnt make very much cents now does it..
    LOL
    not funny.. I know
     
  5. clembo

    clembo A closed mind is no mind

    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
     
  6. Troodon

    Troodon Coin Collector

    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...
     
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