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What is "a score" in money?

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  • #32
    SpaceTime
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    20 in the Gaelic influenced counting system.

    The French still use it too

    Quatre-vingt-dix ... four-score-ten is 90 for example.

    They've officially no word for 80 or 90
    And 70 is sixty-ten...

    The Belgians added their own to make it normal.


  • #33
    Alun
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    SpaceTime wrote: »
    They've officially no word for 80 or 90
    And 70 is sixty-ten...

    The Belgians added their own to make it normal.
    As far as I remember, septante, octante/huitante and nonante are used commonly in Belgium, Switzerland and I think Canada.


  • #34
    topper75
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    The Basques, the Albanians, the Welsh....

    .... they are all fuppin at it sure. 'Tis the ancient way.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal


  • #35
    ectoraige
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    It's exactly 350/17.5.


  • #36
    SpaceTime
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    Alun wrote: »
    As far as I remember, septante, octante/huitante and nonante are used commonly in Belgium, Switzerland and I think Canada.

    But not in France where they like to stick to the Gaelic-inspired proper and awkward way because it's fun to confuse language students & tourists.

    Vive le quatre-vingts !


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  • #37
    refusetolose
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    a blowjob


  • #38
    SpaceTime
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    refusetolose wrote: »
    a blowjob

    You're not factoring in inflation (pardon the pun).


  • #39
    Reoil
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    Yep, it's not just for money. "Four score and five" would be an old-fashioned way to say 85.


  • #40
    snubbleste
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    I thought it came from ár dteanga dhilís
    As in tabhair dom scór punt Or bhain siad amach scór pointe


  • #41
    The_Captain
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    Egginacup wrote: »
    And in certain circles in the US a $100 is called a benjamin (after Benji Franklin).


    Yes I also listen to rap music


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  • #42
    B.A._Baracus
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    A thread about slang? how could it not be posted :



  • #43
    topper75
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    I thought it came from ár dteanga dhilís

    Nó ar tháinig sé chugainne ón Béarla? N'fheadar i ndáiríre.


  • #44
    LoganRice
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    A score = 20


  • #45
    ectoraige
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    Michael2107 wrote: »
    a monkey is 500, and a bag is a grand(bag of sand)

    What if you have a bag of monkeys, is that half a rock?


  • #46
    Dtp1979
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    Tenner says it's 20


  • #47
    Capt'n Midnight
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    1388 John Wyclif's Bible, Leviticus 12:5, "Thre scoor and sixe daies."

    http://wesley.nnu.edu/fileadmin/imported_site/wycliffe/Lev.txt
    Sotheli if sche childith a female, sche schal be vnclene twei woukis, bi the custom of flowyng of vnclene blood, and `thre scoor and sixe daies sche schal dwelle in the blood of her clensyng.


  • #48
    YFlyer
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    Duck Soup wrote: »
    Or if you're older, it was also known as a 'J. Arthur'.

    Tempering his mallet to hit the gong.


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