If memory serves me right there was a penny once a penny in the amerrican currency, but i could be wrong, heres some others, why was a shilling called a bob, and a two bob bit called a florin ? Or the irish call a pound a punt, i always thought that it was one of them there things you poled up the thames with your loved one on a tete a tete hmmmmm! Nowt like colloquilisms
Hello, I think I know the answer to the pizza box, square boxes of the same volume stacked take up less space than round boxes; or, stack more compactly?
The coin one has intrigued me too so I looked it up: "the United States one-cent coin, commonly known as a penny, is a unit of currency equaling one one-hundredth of a United States dollar"
So, putting your two cents' worth in is more than giving a penny for someone else's thoughts! The things that amuse us eh! George
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hmmmmm! Nowt like colloquilisms 
