Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

.... I think LezLee wd prefer 'one penny', with 'pence' kept as a plural.

Personally I think we shd abolish all pennies and pence. And Pence.

Should we also abolish mikes?

[vinteuil]

I suspect it's a regional thing. We said thruppence at school if that was the cost of something but our teachers told us to say threppence instead, for some reason.

... I think I would have said thruppence - but thruppenny bit for the coin

[cloughie]

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... odd that it was tuppence (tuppence for your thoughts) but thrupenny (thrupenny bit)


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But there weren’t any tuppny bits! And for the record I go for threp not thrup!

[gurnemanz]

... I think I would have said thruppence - but thruppenny bit for the coin

Interesting that predecimally "pence" would usually come out as an unstressed "pəns" whereas under the decimal system it mostly seems to get the full vowel sound - "six pence" as against "sɪkspəns". The people who say "one pence" nowadays wouldn't say "onepəns"".

I wouldn't really object to "one pence" unless feeling exceptionally pedantic that day - any more than "six foot", which we have got used to saying.

[cloughie]

Interesting that predecimally "pence" would usually come out as an unstressed "pəns" whereas under the decimal system it mostly seems to get the full vowel sound - "six pence" as against "sɪkspəns". The people who say "one pence" nowadays wouldn't say "onepəns"".

I wouldn't really object to "one pence" unless feeling exceptionally pedantic that day - any more than "six foot", which we have got used to saying.

Never ‘pans’ in the North of England but maybe SW!

[oddoneout]

But there weren’t any tuppny bits! And for the record I go for threp not thrup!

Some parts of the country are more expensive than others...
I grew up with "penny for them".

[vinteuil]

Some parts of the country are more expensive than others...
I grew up with "penny for them".

.... I think you're right - 'a penny for your thoughts' - but that's just my tuppence worth


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[oddoneout]

.... I think you're right - 'a penny for your thoughts' - but that's just my tuppence worth


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And why was it tuppence worth I wonder, rather than pennorth or thruppence?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Never ‘pans’ in the North of England ...

No - it was a "tanner".

Class boundaries marked too, between the posher "threp'ney" (rhyming with "Stepney") and "thrupney" (rhyming almost with "chutney").

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No - it was a "tanner".

Or, rather, "it were a 'tanner'".

[cloughie]

Or, rather, "it were a 'tanner'".

And half a crown were arf a dollar!

And for a bob!

https://www.quora.com/How-long-has-a-shilling-been-known-as-a-bob-and-whats-the-reason-for-the-name

Anyone familiar with the Rule Britannia paraphrase.

Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob.
Three make eighteen pence and four two bob.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anyone familiar with the Rule Britannia paraphrase.

Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob.
Three make eighteen pence and four two bob.

Almost - our version was "three make one-and-six".

[vinteuil]

No - it was a "tanner".

Class boundaries marked too, between the posher "threp'ney" (rhyming with "Stepney") and "thrupney" (rhyming almost with "chutney").

... 'threp'ney' very much faux posh - it's what governesses and Hyacinth Bucket might say.

The vrai posh said thrup'ney




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[cloughie]

... 'threp'ney' very much faux posh - it's what governesses and Hyacinth Bucket might say.

The vrai posh said thrup'ney




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I think that thruppence was west of the Pennines where threppence was to the east!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... 'threp'ney' very much faux posh - it's what governesses and Hyacinth Bucket might say.
The vrai posh said thrup'ney.

Oh, yes - there weren't any genuinely posh people in my birth town: just a considerable number of people who said "threpney" and "pardon?" and who were amused by the others who said "thrupney" and "what?".