Pounds, Shillings, And Pence.

[William51]

Do you remember the old money before decimalization in 1971 ? There were Farthings, Halfpennies, Pennies, Threepenny bits, Tanners (Sixpence), shillings, Florin ( two shillings), half crown, Crown (five shillings),, Ten bob notes ( ten shillings), one Pound, Five Pound, Ten Pound and Twenty Pound notes. Four Farthings in a penny,Twelve pennies in a shilling and twenty shillings in a pound, we thought nothing of working out the complicated sums. But with one hundred pennies to a pound it is simple these days.

[Etch]

"It's too easy to be out by a factor of ten with metric."
Well this poster was out by a factor of 12 with imperial!:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Home-and-Garden/Question1757377.html
:-D

[jno]

they could at least start by renaming imperial units "Commonwealth units".

[Gromit]

Jno
The main user of Imperial units today is the USA, who escaped the Commonwealth 250 years ago ;-)

[burlyshirley]

I remember finding 6d on the ground when I was a kid (about 10 maybe) and I felt rich !! I wondered what to spend it on and in the end I bought a Mars Bar and boy did I enjoy that Mars Bar !

[Gromit]

burlyshirley

In 1971 that sixpence 6d became 2½ new pence. But strangely the shops were charging 3p for the Mars bar ;-(

[burlyshirley]

Gromit - everything went up when new pence came in ! I remember moaning with a friend when we saw some cakes priced at 50p, we were fuming that we now had to pay ten bob for a cake !!

[Hopkirk]

The Americans can't even get imperial units right. They've got their own version of gallons.

[William51]

Before decimalization i remember the Australians asking our ministers what we were going to call our new currency, i presume to copy us, but our government had not made up its mind, and i think that is why Australia called theirs the Dollar.

[jno]

I'm sure they could get the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on board, Gromit. After all, it's the home of the not very widely used unit the Smoot

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/harvard-bridge-smoot-measurements

[jno]

William, as I recall the Aussies went with dollar because they planned to make it half the previous unit rather than the same. They thought Britain would probably stick with the pound, which they did.