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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2091621, member: 31533&quot;]In America...</p><p>A one-cent piece is a penny.</p><p>A five-cent piece is a nickel.</p><p>A ten-cent piece is a dime.</p><p>A twenty-five-cent piece is a quarter.</p><p>A fifty-cent piece is a half.</p><p>A hundred-cent piece is a dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now. Realize that &#039;cent&#039; (singular) is a short way of saying &quot;one-cent&quot;. A cent is not a coin, it is a value --- yet that value can be imparted as a stand-alone coin or piece of money. You are using the value of the coin, relative to a &quot;dollar&quot;, which is the standard of U.S. money (or what we &#039;trade&#039; in) as an adjective to state its value. </p><p><br /></p><p>A penny is an accepted word used to name the object (in this case, a one-cent piece) in the U.S. that carries the value of 1/100 of a dollar. </p><p><br /></p><p>For all the purists who want to say Americans don&#039;t have pennies because &#039;cent&#039; is on it, that is just idiotic. Objects can be and are called by more than one name. The common name, widely used in the U.S. for the one-cent coin is penny. Get over it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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