Tham khảo tài liệu 'british english a to zed phần 10', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | APPENDIX II GLOSSARIES AND TABLES A. Currency Up to August 1 1969 British coms in regular use were the halfpenny pronounced hay pny penny threepence pronounced THRUH PNY THRUPPENNY THRUPPENCE sometimes threepence sometimes called THREPPENNY bit sixpence nicknamed tanner sometimes bender shilling florin 2 shillings and half-crown 2V2 shillings . Twenty shillings made a pound 12 pence plural of penny made a shilling. Thus there were 240 pence in a pound. The farthing V4 penny was discontinued years ago the halfpenny was demonetized on August 1 1969 the half-crown on January 1 1970. The guinea existed only as a convenient way of denoting 21 shillings . one pound one shilling. The symbol for pound is placed before the number like the dollar sign for shilling or shillings it was s. for penny or pence d. but there was also the oblique line and dash meaning shilling s written after the number thus 15 -meant 15 shillings. If there were pence as well the dash was omitted thus 15 9 orally fifteen and nine meant 15 shillings and 9 pence. But on February 15 1971 the British decimalized their currency eliminating shillings as such leaving only pounds and pence now abbreviated to p with 100 new pence to the pound. What used to be a shilling is now 5 new pence a florin is now 10 new pence and so on. The new soon began to be dropped. The old shillings and 2-shilling pieces the same sizes as the new 5- and 10-pence pieces but different designs have become collectors items. What was one pound two shillings 1-2-0 is now written . With the coming of the 100-pence pound it became the fancy of some merchants after adding up a column to announce the total in terms of pence alone thus 111 pence for or 342 please for . This custom is undoubtedly a hangover from the practice in the old shilling days of stating prices in shillings even when they exceeded a pound thus 102 6 or 200 s. Apparently stating the price in smaller units is thought to make things sound cheaper. On .
