Money
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- Inland Revenue
- the tax folks
- National Insurance
- like Social Security, including the number
- quid
- a pound
- "squid"
- joking slang for a pound
- dosh
- money, cash
- fiver,tenner
- five- and ten-pound notes
- old currency
- not used any more but occasionally someone will refer
to a florin (2 shillings = 10 p) or half-crown
(5 shillings = 25 p). Also farthing, groat, guinea,
crown ...
Ben Bolker
Fri Dec 16 22:18:58 EST 1994