how many threepenny bits in a pound .
Aw Tiswas. How do we go about that? Now let me see . . . There were 16 ounces in the pound. So a thripenny bit as it was pronounced weighs . . . 1.0563 ounces approximately, thank you Mr Spock. So divide 16 by 1.0563 . . . . .
george i am confused .
Tiswas, I fear that GeorgeGG is taking the Michael.
The correct answer is:
There were 4 threepenny bits to a shilling and 20 shillings to the pound, ergo there were 80 threepenny bits to the pound.
And just to correct GeorgeGG, the approximate way of pronouncing it in the north was 'Thruppence', and 'Thrippence' in the south.
Now you have a good idea how old I am.
By the way, no reference has been made to Google in serving this information to you on a plate!
RIGHT go to the top of the class . sorry with my aspergers i dont always get some humour .
The Imperial system of measures was confusing. Pound was used for value and for weight. I have mixed the value and weight aspects and the result is confusion. There was some value in going metric. The trouble was it was cynically and dishonestly used to hike prices on a huge scale. Those of us of shopping age remember the hiking of prices and they never came down. We, the shoppers were well and truly DONE.
Bravo Archemedes, you have your euika moment and sussed me out good and proper.
In the parts of Scotland I come from the pronunciation might be represented by thr'punce with the r rolled and the u very short. Regional and class variations are very interesting but very difficult to represent in writing.
Ah yes, rolling the 'R's', I've heard all about that.
In the part of the world that I come from we have no such singular dialectic refinements, as our flat caps and clogs preclude anything other than native grunts.
Och aye the noo....
its 16oz to a pound in weight and 14lb to a stone .
36 inche to a yard and 39 to a metre
who remembers gils think iv spelt it right as a liquid measure .
and the american stone differs from ours . as well thats why there dress size 10 is a british 14 and there size 8 is a 12 .
Now you have heard why the haggis alway runs round the mountains in a clockwise direction. It is like this you see . . . .
i love all our verifacations of language and dialect i think its rich and interesting , i get very annoyed when people mistake the geordie accent for scottish if you listen its quite clearly differant .
leicester folk do not sound like derby folk although both in the midlands
i think we should be proud of where we come from and embrace our rich language . and all its lovely sounds , i personaly love geordies, liverpool accents .
I acquired a penchant for haggis, but most of all for smokies.
Truly a great country with great people, all living in England.
Gosh yes. The stuff we had to learn in primary school.
I notice you did not mention our glorious Scottish weather and dark Winters. Yes, lots of refugees from the weather - like me.
I've never worried about the weather up in Scotland, as one can get the full gamut of it in the same day, which I think adds to the interest and diversity of the place.
However if it was me, the real incentive to leave would be the tenacious midges that follow you down the A74, making their final home in the highlands of Westmorland and Cumbria, reducing that hallowed turf also into a no-go area for much of the time.
No wonder the Romans were not too keen on invading Caledonia.
Given that Roman military skirts were designed for protection against swords, spears and boots it is unlikely that they offered protection against midgies. They are totally unsupportable miseries.
One August we foolishly drove visitors to the Trosachs. Very beautiful they were. At last a beautiful sweep of Scotland lay before us. We stopped and alighted.
Moments later we were scrambling back into the car as a black cloud of these tiny monsters gorged on us. The doors crashed shut. Then we were on our way back to Edinburgh where no midge dwells.
i am a marter to midges to a nigthmare . so if i go to scotland one day maybe ,i s hould visit edinburgh .
i could never get my head round fractions and division maths a really weak point for me .
Ah but you have to admit that the Arbroath Smokies were worth it all, and the ones at Kingussie were not too bad either.
Yes, those were the days.
Hi Tiswas and Archemedes,
The East of Scotland tends to be free of midgies.
Arbroath Smokies are a great feed. The Eu banned them for many years. Talk of ignorance.
Scotland is also the land of 'fish suppers' - haddock and chips rather than cod and chips.