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apprentice - 09 Aug 2005 17:00 GMT

What are informal names for pound?
quid
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Warsaw, Poland

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John of Aix - 09 Aug 2005 17:34 GMT

> What are informal names for pound?
> quid

A oncer (pronounced wunser), a nicker.

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John Dean - 10 Aug 2005 15:27 GMT

>> What are informal names for pound?
>> quid
>
> A oncer (pronounced wunser), a nicker.

a brick, a bar

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Oxford

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Nick Wagg - 09 Aug 2005 17:37 GMT

> What are informal names for pound?
> quid

Sometimes squid or squids (humorous variations of quid).
Nicker, as in 50 nicker.

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Gartons - 10 Aug 2005 11:08 GMT

>> What are informal names for pound?
>> quid
>
> Sometimes squid or squids (humorous variations of quid).
> Nicker, as in 50 nicker.

And of course "Half a nicker"

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Molly Mockford - 09 Aug 2005 18:49 GMT

At 18:00:24 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
<e2dc8$42f8d326$540aa681$24640@news.chello.pl>:

>What are informal names for pound?
>quid
>...

For a while it was known as a Thatcher - because it was thick, brassy
and thought it was a sovereign.

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John Briggs - 10 Aug 2005 00:06 GMT

> At 18:00:24 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
> <e2dc8$42f8d326$540aa681$24640@news.chello.pl>:
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> For a while it was known as a Thatcher - because it was thick, brassy
> and thought it was a sovereign.

That was the coin, rather than the denomination itself.

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