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'yorz
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1018533. Wed Aug 28, 2013 2:56 pm |
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*groan* honest |
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Bondee
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1018540. Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:25 pm |
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Yep. She spent at least 20 minutes trying to figure out how to separate them. |
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swot
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1018542. Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:28 pm |
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You are mean :) |
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nitwit02
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1018572. Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:18 pm |
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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.
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Never heard it, but I like it. |
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djgordy
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1018581. Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:19 am |
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Who calls a pound a "knicker" these days? |
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Jenny
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1018657. Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:47 am |
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I always thought of it as being a Cockney word, though I don't think it's rhyming slang. |
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chrisboote
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1018727. Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:22 am |
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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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