Alan, What fun we find in word derivations. I'd have never guessed about tuppence being the fee. But bankers -- my son Travis works for a bank learning to be a financial consultant...but not a Knibbs -- just a relative. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [K/NIBB/S] Remember, remember ..... > In a message dated 27/02/02 13:00:30 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] > writes: > > > > I have a question for you all, now you've mentioned "tuppence" Alan! ;) > > Since hubby watched Mary Poppins recently, he's been singing one of the > > songs to Lauren and he keeps asking me what "tuppence" is. All I could > > tell him was it was money! Anyone know the correct answer? > > > > > > Two pennies. That's old pennies. The D in LSD ie pounds, shillings and > pence. Not the new pennies we use now, abbreviated to p. > > We're getting on to banking now. Any K/NIBB/S bankers out there? > > I hope Lauren liked the film. > > bfn > > Alan > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >