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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 991359, member: 20205&quot;]I wonder that, because at the time, the use of actual, whole pennies was beyond living memory at that point, whether the term &#039;ha&#039;penny&#039; or &#039;half-penny&#039; had been corrupted in the vernacular language to just &quot; &#039;penny&quot; and that is how the cent came to be called a &#039;penny&#039;, because that is what the half-penny had become known as amongst ordinary people..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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