Quids Vs Pounds

[Mike Weaver]

In 1971 UK changed from pounds shillings and pence to decimal pounds and 
pence.
Before that:
A penny was a penny - twelve to the shilling,  but two pennies was 
tuppence. A shilling - twenty to the pound, was a bob and as with quid 
the plural was also bob (ten bob is now 50 pence. A six pence piece was 
a tanner - also half a bob. There was a two shilling  bit - a florin - 
though that was the formal name, you said two bob. Carrying on with the 
formal there was a crown - five shillings but they went out of 
circulation in the C19th, minted as commemorative coins since. In 
circulation was the half crown - two shillings and six pence, in 
everyday speech always half-a-crown, though 'two and six' was just 
commonly used.

Quids was only used in the phrases like  'quids in'  or 'not for quids'. 
The money plural as Rich says is 'quid'.

On 18-Feb-18 3:40 AM, rich wrote:
> quid is only ever in the singular. i did think bob was another 
> equivalence but i was wrong on that. english money 100 yrs ago was 
> quite amusing in its complexity. like the monty python mattress store skit
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:04 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is Bucks Vs Dollars an equivalent?
>
>     David Morris
>
>



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