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Rothhammer1 that was interesting. In slang terms we called 1 shilling a "Bob" and a Florien-2 shillings- "2 Bob" Hence the saying "As silly as a 2Bob watch"


Re pronunciation. Even those fro the same country but different area can pronounce something differently. Some of this can be put down to accent. Look at the different pronunciations for "Tomato".

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The British system also had the Farthing, Crown, Sovereign, Guinea, Groat... . This guy runs on as I do but is very informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRDOmgJyznI

Here are some promotional videos about 'decimalisation':

Aussie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTeWLA1LAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2f1TSRo-2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnmp-da-U6E

UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJNoPyoiWRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=045Pm78sPkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i310U-HJLo



Back to pronunciation, here in the U.S. we have so many different accents and regional uses of words that it can be difficult for a person from one region to understand another if both speak in heavily accented "English" (or our versions of same).

California is a whole 'nuther matter. We can hold entire conversations by merely exchanging the word "dude" with differing inflection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77v_Q0mhbZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-9Y56sIY1E

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