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'yorz	1018533.  Wed Aug 28, 2013 2:56 pm *groan* honest
Bondee	1018540.  Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:25 pm Yep. She spent at least 20 minutes trying to figure out how to separate them.
swot	1018542.  Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:28 pm You are mean :)
nitwit02	1018572.  Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:18 pm Quote: Some sources on slang allege that the £2 coin is commonly known as a pair of knickers. A small prize for anyone who's ever actually heard this. Never heard it, but I like it.
djgordy	1018581.  Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:19 am Who calls a pound a "knicker" these days?
Jenny	1018657.  Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:47 am I always thought of it as being a Cockney word, though I don't think it's rhyming slang.
chrisboote	1018727.  Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:22 am I'm FAIRLY sure that 'half a knicker' for ten bob was because 'a knicker' was a pound Why? Well, nobody knows But the most likely explanation is horseracing slang; a nicker originally being a losing bet (from ~1850) - nicker = neigh = nay The Tote Museum quotes 1871 as the first use of 'nicker' being a pound, claiming that "all racecourse bets were changed in that year to be a minimum of £1", but this seems incredibly expensive to me - at a time when a day trip to Epsom Races, including entrance fee, was a shilling - and makes me think that they have it wrong

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