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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 1606519, member: 40017&quot;]From Wikipedia:</p><p>&quot;Old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" rel="nofollow">English</a> versions of the word penny are <i>penig</i>, <i>pening</i>, <i>penning</i> and <i>pending</i>; the word appears in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" rel="nofollow">German</a> as <i>Pfennig,</i> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" rel="nofollow">Dutch</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language" rel="nofollow">Swedish</a> (often shortened to <i>peng</i>) as <i>penning,</i> and in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language" rel="nofollow">West Frisian</a> as <i>peinje</i> or <i>penje</i>. In Swedish, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language" rel="nofollow">Norwegian</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" rel="nofollow">Danish</a>, the most common words for <i>money</i> are <i>pengar</i>, <i>penger</i> and <i>penge</i> respectively. These words are thought by some to have common roots with the English word &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_%28law%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_%28law%29" rel="nofollow">pawn</a>&quot;, German <i>Pfand</i>, and Dutch <i>pand</i>, words which mean &quot;a pledge or token&quot;.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">&quot;</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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