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Default Fish Fingers' 60th Anniversary in the UK (Gdn)
On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 22:24:46 +0100, Janet > wrote:

>In article >,
>says...
>>
>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:14:57 -0300, wrote:
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>> >I love metric, never said I didn't. It's so logical, worst ever to
>> >work with was 12 pennies 1 shilling, 20 shillings 1 pound, 21 pounds 1
>> >guinea.
>>
>> That's not really the metric system, it's called the decimal currency
>> system.
>
> Nope, it's the old £sd pre-decimal system :-)

YES, the pounds, shillings etc. are the old £sd pre-decimal system.
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