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Post by andrew111 on Oct 15, 2021 20:28:15 GMT
I don't feel as Alien8Ted as I did from politics so I have changed my name to something more appropriate. Well at least something my dad used to call me when I was young. Less Alien but still Ted..
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 15, 2021 20:31:58 GMT
Actually, thinking back, it was more confusing than nothat. I would say throopence for thruppence, but thruppence if it was thruppence halfpenny. I've no idea why. It was always tuppence and threppence as I recall
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 15, 2021 20:38:46 GMT
As a matter of fact I still have a tin of the second generation brass threepenny bits somewhere. They were pronounced "threpny" in my Sheffield childhood (but educated by a mother with a Cheshire accent).
I had the idea that if I could collect every year of them they would be worth good money, and even paid £5 or so for a couple of rare ones.
I was mistaken, but kept them anyway..
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Post by neilm on Oct 15, 2021 21:10:49 GMT
As a matter of fact I still have a tin of the second generation brass threepenny bits somewhere. They were pronounced "threpny" in my Sheffield childhood (but educated by a mother with a Cheshire accent). I had the idea that if I could collect every year of them they would be worth good money, and even paid £5 or so for a couple of rare ones. I was mistaken, but kept them anyway.. They were 'threpny' to my family in South Wales, and 'thrupny' in Devon (no idea how the Warrington branch pronounced it). When I moved to Sheffield, I heard 'threpny' in a broad Barnsley accent.
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 15, 2021 21:29:52 GMT
Tuppence apeney an' a used postage stamp
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 15, 2021 21:34:37 GMT
Tuppence apeney an' a used postage stamp And you tell the kids that today, and they don't know what you're talking about.
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 15, 2021 21:38:07 GMT
Tuppence apeney an' a used postage stamp And you tell the kids that today, and they don't know what you're talking about. I will have to design a sticker summarising it I guess!
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Post by yellowperil on Oct 15, 2021 21:48:07 GMT
Actually, thinking back, it was more confusing than nothat. I would say throopence for thruppence, but thruppence if it was thruppence halfpenny. I've no idea why. It was always tuppence and threppence as I recall Definitely thruppence, and thruppence ha'penny, certainly never a halfpenny, surely.
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 15, 2021 21:51:36 GMT
It was always tuppence and threppence as I recall Definitely thruppence, and thruppence ha'penny, certainly never a halfpenny, surely. I've gorran apeney in mi pocket
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Post by carlton43 on Oct 18, 2021 14:20:33 GMT
Actually, thinking back, it was more confusing than nothat. I would say throopence for thruppence, but thruppence if it was thruppence halfpenny. I've no idea why. It was always tuppence and threppence as I recall Now that you have mentioned it, I do recall that 'Threppence' was the pronunciation of the middle class and upper class people in the south when I grew up. In my family we tended to use 'Thruppence' because my parents were from the Midlands and North where that was the common usuage even by those (including my parents) with a Received Accent.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Oct 18, 2021 15:44:16 GMT
We said thruppence and threppn'y bit. Just to be confusing...
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 18, 2021 15:54:52 GMT
It was always tuppence and threppence as I recall Now that you have mentioned it, I do recall that 'Threppence' was the pronunciation of the middle class and upper class people in the south when I grew up. In my family we tended to use 'Thruppence' because my parents were from the Midlands and North where that was the common usuage even by those (including my parents) with a Received Accent. My father was from Nottingham, but from a middle class teacher family. My mother was from Macclesfield and then moved to Stockport. Her father was a stonemason. She was a mathematician/physicist who has a Wikipedia page thanks to inventing the "Crank-Nicolson method", a way of solving partial differential equations numerically, which has been used ever since in many many useful ways. She went to Stockport Girls Grammar and Manchester University but retained elements of a strong Cheshire accent. As an example, in infants school in Ecclesall, Sheffield we had to hold up placards with a number and say the number outloud. I got 14. When I pronounced it "foeteen" I got into an argument with the teacher, an incident still etched in my memory! So threppence probably came from my mother..
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Post by Crimson King on Oct 18, 2021 17:04:31 GMT
threp’ny bit for me (middle class S Yorks, Stockport ancestry) but why ‘bit’? Is there any othe coin always known as a ‘bit’
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Post by hengo on Oct 18, 2021 17:24:23 GMT
I think the sixpence coin was also sometimes called a bit though tanner was very common, though a bit slangy
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 18, 2021 17:57:03 GMT
I think the sixpence coin was also sometimes called a bit though tanner was very common, though a bit slangy Yes. It was. I think maybe they were "bits of a shilling" or something
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 18, 2021 17:57:59 GMT
Bits and bobs??
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Post by neilm on Oct 18, 2021 23:54:36 GMT
I occasionally refer to 10p pieces as 'two bob bits.'
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Post by yellowperil on Oct 19, 2021 6:08:57 GMT
I occasionally refer to 10p pieces as 'two bob bits.' No, a two bob bit is a florin.
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Post by tonyhill on Oct 19, 2021 6:41:39 GMT
My recollection is that it was a sixp'ny piece.
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Post by neilm on Oct 19, 2021 6:59:28 GMT
I occasionally refer to 10p pieces as 'two bob bits.' No, a two bob bit is a florin. I know. But, these days, they don't exist and I like to confuse my younger colleagues.
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