Money

[baza]

Watching the news a couple of days ago the newscaster said that postage stamps would go up by one pence, surely single penny, plural pence , or have things changed ?

[bhg481]

No, nothing's changed. I find myself muttering "penny" when such statements are made.

[baza]

I bet the newsreader does her bra size in metric so her chest seems bigger.

[gingejbee]

One of my pet hates....one pence. Oh! and people who say "pee" because "pence" is too much effort for them.

[bookbinder]

Pure sloppiness.

[bhg481]

I think using "pee" came about in the early days of decimalisation to distinguish the new penny from the old penny. I flatly refused to use it.

[Zacs-Master]

Pee came in because it's written 5p , 10p etc.

[bookbinder]

...but when it was 10d, 5d, nobody said ten dee, five dee.

[bhg481]

But we didn't use "d" for penny, as in 10d being called 10 dee.

[mikey4444]

I'm just glad that they dropped the "New Pee" a long time ago!

[gingejbee]

^^^quite! And we didn't say "One large curly el, three s's and eleven dee" for £1 3s 11d.......and the Yanks don't say 65 cee for 65 cents, so Z-M's explanation is a no-goer!

[fiction-factory]

No problem for me. Language changes.