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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 26038275, member: 43872&quot;]I remember the term being used when I was a child, as in when hopping off the barber&#039;s chair he would say, &quot;That&#039;ll be six bits!&quot;&nbsp; After almost a century and a half of usage, it died because (1) the older generation stopped talking to the younger generation so much, killing lots of expressions, and (2) inflation gradually made &quot;two bits&quot; coins buy less and less, thus being used less and less.&nbsp; Today&#039;s kids hardly know what coins are.&nbsp; There is one place where the term survives.&nbsp; Some schools still have cheerleaders who shout, &quot;Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar!&nbsp; All for the [name of school&#039;s mascot], stand up and holler.&quot;&nbsp; Of course, they have no idea where it came from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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