Percy's sickle <snipped>
zgirnius
zgirnius at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 9 06:15:55 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 150757
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger"
<quigonginger at ...> wrote:
>
> > zgirnius:
> > My observation about the coin names is that they are all
> alliterative
> > with the name of the metal of which they are made. The lowest
> > denomination, the Knut, is a copper coin.
> Ginger:
> Except that knuts are bronze.
> Which would make them bnuts.
> (I put that in to avoid a one-liner.)
zgirnius:
Bronze knuts. I'll have to remember that. I always thought of them as
looking like US pennies, which *look* copper, anyway. (Copper plated
zinc, says ask.com.)
Well, at least bronze is an alloy consisting of copper and other
metals...
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