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To: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] List Down?
From: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:01:49 -0000
In English English it's penny, not penney.  The current coin is a 2 pee or a
two pence coin i.e. two separate words, not twopence.  If you go back to pre
decimalisation days, as in Mary Poppins, the price of a bag of seed to feed
the birds was pronounced 'tuppence', not toppence.

PaulH.
  ----- Original Message -----
  A two pence (the word for more than one penney) coin is called twopence,
  pronounced toppence.
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