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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dougmeister, post: 2223062, member: 56842&quot;]My 11-year old took his (holed) 2-cent piece in for a project at school. We researched the origins of the saying &quot;throwing in your two cents&quot;, and it seems that there are several different opinions as to how this saying started.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2">Variations: </font></p><p><i><font size="2">&quot;You had to put your two cents in, didn&#039;t you?&quot;</font></i></p><p><i><font size="2">&quot;But that’s just my two cents.&quot;</font></i></p><ul> <li>The early cost of postage in England (the &quot;twopenny post&quot;)</li> <li>Poker games (&quot;making a small bet, or ante, before beginning play&quot;)</li> <li>Derived from the 16th Century English expression, <i>&quot;a penny for your thoughts&quot;</i></li> <li><i>Derived from &quot;I said a penny for your thoughts, but I got two pennies&#039; worth!&quot;</i></li> <li><i>Derived from &quot;If you don&#039;t put your two cents in, how can you get <span style="color: #ff0000"><b>change</b></span>?&quot;</i></li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>Any other thoughts on how it might have started?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, is this just an English/American idiom?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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