"not for canada - australian in disguise" (for-canada)
03/05/2015 at 21:58 • Filed to: None
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JustWaitingForAMate
> not for canada - australian in disguise
03/05/2015 at 22:06 |
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Merchants devised a simple and obvious shorthand: "P" for "peso" (when plural, "P s "). It could have ended there, but some (I assume they were just bored) merchant(s) thought it would be even cooler to write the P and S on top of each other. This apparently caught on , and by the 1770s they had dropped the bowl from the P entirely, reducing the shorthand to an S crossed with the vestigial stem of what once was a P . And thus was born a brand new symbol, still used to mean peso today: the peso sign ($).
And because the US dollar was named after the Spanish
peso de ocho
"dollar" coin, the same peso symbol was ultimately used to refer to pesos and dollars both.
Yes, I am fun at parties.
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not for canada - australian in disguise
> JustWaitingForAMate
03/05/2015 at 22:08 |
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lonestranger
> JustWaitingForAMate
03/05/2015 at 23:18 |
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Neat!
