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Peti also means suitcase, which is the volume needed to carry a Lakh of currency notes. In the early 1900s, one thousand dollars was thought to be a “grand” sum of money, hence grand. A "tenner" is £10. Brewer, 1978, p.1053 "Some, as I know, Have parted with their ready rhino" - Brewer, 1978, p.1029, "If now a person is offered anything on sale, he might say, I have not a A "Darwin" also refers to a £10 note, due to the image of General terms include bucks, dough, bread, moolah, cheddar, paper, stash, Benjamin, Benji, loot,U.S.
5 cent : centoe, kleingeld, stuiver (in Amsterdam "bijssie")
Fairly recent additions are a "Winston" for £5 (from the image of £5 is called a "fiver". (Indeed, all East African countries refer to their money as Shillings.In addition, youth have a sub-culture street language for the different denominations.
Where did it come from? 10,000,000.) The Australian A number of post-decimal denominations which have since been discontinued had their own nicknames. 10 Grand in Your Hand - 2009 Mud Money 6-4 was released on: USA: 24 August 2011 Grand old flag, however, and grandparents still retain the OTHER meanings of “grand,” just to confuse people for whom English is a second language. ), the subjects depicted on them and their color. However, when you get to computer network speeds, they tell me–I claim no personal expertise–that kilo (as in kilobits per second) = 1,000.
twenty bones is equal to $20). Kilo is the Greek prefix for thousand, so strictly speaking one might use “10K” to mean $10,000. R 100 = 100 Bucks/Bokke, R 5 = 5 Bucks/Bokke etc.
adjective: Magnificent, wonderful, very good or of exceptionally high quality. In Kenya there are about 42 different languages, which have different dialects and indigenous names for money, in addition to the official National languages of Swahili and English. The more prevalent terms now (particularly in Mumbai and in Bollywood movies) are 'peti' for a Lakh (Rs. But, in Kelantan, they replaced the word "ringgit" with "riyal", for example, RM 10 is usually called 10 ringgit, but in Kelantan, it's called 10 riyal. General terms include bucks, dough, bread, moolah, cheddar, paper, stash, Benjamin, Benji, loot, smackers, and samoleons. Outdated or rarely used terms include: bones, clams, tamales, scratch, grease, cheese, guap, lettuce, salad, scrilla, scrill, chips, cake, ducats, spondulix, celery, and cabbage. coinage nicknames reflect their value, composition and tradition. The best we can do, in most cases, is to find the earliest written usage, which is around 1915 for “grand.” But the term was probably used in conversation for a while before it appeared in writing. The Similar to the United States 5 cent coins are called nickel (due to the metal it was made of), 10 cent coins are dimes, 25 cent coins are quarters or two bits. (It's taking longer than we thought.) What confuses matters is that in the world of computers K sometimes means not 1,000 but 210, or 1,024. 1 euro : uru, djara, ballen (pleural), e, ekkie, pop (Previously when it was 1 Guilder - "piek") I mean, I get the idea that it's a grand amount of money, but who started using the term? Since Canadians and Americans both refer to their respective currencies as "the dollar," and because the two countries tend to mingle both socially and in the media, there is a lot of overlap in slang terms for money. A 25 paisa coin is called 'chavanni' (equal to 4 annas) and 50 paisa is 'athanni' (8 annas). For example, both Canadians and Americans refer to a $100 note as a Since its introduction in 1999, a number of slang terms for the In India slang names for coins are more common than the currency notes. Tijori means a large safe or a cupboard, which would be the approximate space required to store that money in cash form. However, this usually only extends to terms that are not specific to one country or the other. 25 cents: kwartje (a quarter of a euro) (in Amsterdam "heitje") Gwop: Money in general. Thus the United Kingdom term "bob" for a shilling equates to 10 cents. In English, Kenyan currency is a Shilling while in Swahili it is "Shilingi." Less commonly used is the Afrikaans slang for Rands which is "Bokke", the plural of Bok; The Afrikaans word for antelope ("Bucks" being the English equivalent), derived from the Springbok image on the old R 1 coin. For 5 paisa (100 paisa is equal to 1 Indian rupee) it is 'panji'. A 10 paisa coin is called 'dassi' and for 20 paisa it is 'bissi'. A kilobyte of memory is 1,024 bytes, a megabyte is 1,024 times a kilobyte, and a gigabyte is 1,024 times a megabyte. and G one thousand dollars.
Some try to keep things straight by using k to mean 1,000 while K means 1,024, but I venture to say most of the world is unaware of that distinction. Gs: Shorthand term for “grand,” which is a thousand dollars.
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