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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 191404, member: 3565&quot;]dime</p><p>Origin: 1786</p><p><br /></p><p>Fom Answers.com</p><p>A year before the Constitutional Convention determined what kind of government we wanted for the United States of America, we had already made up our mind about our money: dollars and dimes. On August 8, 1786, an ordinance of the Continental Congress called for &quot;Mills, Cents, Dimes, Dollars,&quot; with dime explained as &quot;the lowest silver coin, ten of which shall be equal to the dollar.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Thomas Jefferson has been credited with proposing the names for the coins of the new nation. Among them was disme, based on the French word for &quot;tenth,&quot; dixième. He suggested that disme be pronounced as if it were spelled deem. But the s was dropped by Congress, and the adopted spelling dime suggested pronunciation in keeping with time and rime.</p><p>Here&#039;s another slightly different but similar article.</p><p><a href="http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30725.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30725.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30725.asp</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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