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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 21, 2020 22:24:53 GMT
I've noticed in a few episodes of 'On The Buses' Blakey says 'pees' rather than 'pee' or 'pence'. I've not heard anyone say pees other than him.
Alan Partridge makes the same point about people who say 'vee double you' instead of 'volkswagen'
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 21, 2020 22:25:00 GMT
.........In saying that though I don't know why people called the six penny piece a 'tanner'??? Sam. It was nicknamed the tanner after the bloke who designed the coin, John Sigismund Tanner. Gene.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jan 21, 2020 22:32:26 GMT
.........In saying that though I don't know why people called the six penny piece a 'tanner'??? Sam. It was nicknamed the tanner after the bloke who designed the coin, John Sigismund Tanner. Gene. You learn something new every day - and usually on here! Thanks for the info Guv. Sam.
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Post by Three Litre on Jan 21, 2020 22:41:00 GMT
.........In saying that though I don't know why people called the six penny piece a 'tanner'??? Sam. It was nicknamed the tanner after the bloke who designed the coin, John Sigismund Tanner. Gene. Or possibly Elsie ...........
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jan 21, 2020 22:45:52 GMT
It was nicknamed the tanner after the bloke who designed the coin, John Sigismund Tanner. Gene. Or possibly Elsie ........... No mate, the six penny piece was never called an Elsie, I think you're getting confused with a 250 or 350 Yamaha (very few on here will get that one without turning to Google!) Sam.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jan 21, 2020 23:57:32 GMT
So that's why it was called a tanner, as Sam said you learn something every day. Dont suppose too many of us on here actually spent one. When did it get finished up the early seventies wasn't it? When Edward Heaths government brought in decimalisation, I think.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 22, 2020 6:05:24 GMT
So that's why it was called a tanner, as Sam said you learn something every day. Dont suppose too many of us on here actually spent one. When did it get finished up the early seventies wasn't it? When Edward Heaths government brought in decimalisation, I think. Yes Charles, though the tanner continued to be legal tender (valued at 2½ pence) until 30th June 1980. The sixpence had been in circulation since 1551. Gene.
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Post by Sparky on Jan 22, 2020 7:12:07 GMT
I don't get why people say pee instead of pence as it's no easier. It was only 49 pee! Steed I've noticed in some On the Buses episodes they say "New Pence". I still use pence... I thought Pee was something you did in a toilet!
My Grandparents were still saying "Couple of Bob" well into the 1980s a decade after decimalisation came in.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Jan 22, 2020 7:47:10 GMT
I can’t get my head around the old money at all - mum’s tried to explain it a few times but it doesn’t really stick. Other than knowing the names, I certainly wouldn’t know approximately what it was worth. I think it’s relatively impressive that she can still do it without thinking when she was only 17 in 1971. I’ve got the little booklet about it. It must have been pretty odd actually, mustn’t it? It’s something you need to understand without thinking in order to know what on earth you’ve actually got and what you can spend. I think it would be quite scary to begin with. A bit like when you’re abroad and trying to work out what something is actually costing.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 22, 2020 8:49:45 GMT
I was age 9 in 1971 and can still remember old money and can still convert from one to the other
All the school kids were given one of these in the run up... Note the half pence For years afterwards old relatives would moan about how confusing it was and how the shopkeepers had sneakily put their prices up after decimalisation
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