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2010-02-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Long Lost Nazi Nuke Project Uranium Found In Netherlands

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-20 10:41|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Furthermore, they had taken good care not to big that aspect of the research up to their Nazi masters, for reasons of self-interest.

Didn't realize that the (Jamaican?) slang term "Big up" was now part of the general English language.

Posted by john frum 2010-02-20 11:10|| 2010-02-20 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Moose, a bit inaccurate. Joachimsthaler -> Joachimsthal, where thal = valley. The coin was actually silver "guldengroschen" (an equivalent of a half crown gold coin) commonly referred to by Czechs as "tolar". Thalers as currency became popular in Europe in their local renderings and in Netherlands it was called "daaler". Whether that got then transplanted to American colonies or the Czech "tolar" via Moravian Brothers that started to migrate there in mid-17th century, may be debatable. Maybe both had their influence and thus the T got replaced by D (with doubling the L) in the orthography that is closer to the Czech moniker, while the pronunciation is closer to the Dutch variant.

There were also gold "guldens" (or crowns as they became known later, with their national varians: krÃ¶ne, krona, kronor, koruna) in use, as documented by a 16th century contemporary Czech song expressing economic realities: (transl.) "an ax is for 2 guldens and the handle is for 1 tolar", yeah, it was not cheap then. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2010-02-20 12:18|| 2010-02-20 12:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Another explanation for the origin of dollar is thaler (the main currency throughout German speaking Europe in the 17th/18th century) spoken by a German sounds like 'dollar' to an english speaker.

BTW wikipedia is wrong about the origin of 'dollar' in Britain. A 'dollar' was 5 shillings because that was long the exchange rate - 4 USD to the Pound sterling.

The term 'dollar' was in common use in Britain through the 1960s and had no relation to the Thaler. A half crown coin was in circulation (pre-decimal) and that was the term used and not 'half a dollar' as wikipedia claims. However, there was no crown coin in circulation and 5 shillings was usually referred to as a dollar.

Posted by phil_b 2010-02-20 19:05|| 2010-02-20 19:05|| Front Page Top

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