Americans are often shocked at the word “cunt”. Good.
Succinct and entirely appropriate 🙂
The only answer deserved
u/bot-sleuth-bot
Clear and polite.
Is there a better insult in all of language than “you thick cunt” ? I don’t think so.
Cents actually being french, deriving from centime (hundredth)
Damn good answer. Straight to the point
There used to be 240 pence in a pound. So Cent wouldn’t make sense, and we ain’t the God dam French.
Pence is germanic, whereas is cent is latin.
Cent literally means one hundredth, think century or percentages.
Whereas penny comes from the Anglo-Saxons copied Charlemagne’s denomination system based around 12, not 10. In the Francophone system this was 12 deniers to 1 sou, and 240 deniers to 1 libra. Or, in Old English, 12 pennies to a shilling, and 240 pennies to a pound.
So given 1 penny wasn’t 1/100 but 1/240 of a pound, calling it a ‘cent’ wouldn’t have made sense anyway. And fast forward 1000 years, those names all stuck it out (as did the 240 pennies to a pound), at least until decimilisation was completed in the 1970s, which saw the end of all the names except penny and pound, and made the whole system base 10. But it’s not like you can just suddenly change the name to ‘cents’.
They have to learn somewhere.
What a great response 😂😂👍
Fake!
The capitalisation of the letter “B”, the comma, and the period at the end gives it away.
Honesty is sometimes the best form..
Innit
Being an American they probably thought he meant they had a Fat Minge..
Americans so smart lol
Well, it would actually make more sense to use cent, since cent is derived from century which is a hundred. The pence is carried over from pre-metric times.
Back when it was 20 shillings in a pound, 12 pence a shilling… 240 pence to a pound.
The fact we haven’t migrated to using the word cent is tradition. And as someone pointed out to me, tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
The 7 year old who asked that question probably gonna stop drawing crayon pictures of Big Ben now lol.
Why do Americans have cents and not sense? Cuz they’re poor and stupid.
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Harsh but fair.
Laughed too hard at that comment.
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Americans are often shocked at the word “cunt”. Good.
Succinct and entirely appropriate 🙂
The only answer deserved
u/bot-sleuth-bot
Clear and polite.
Is there a better insult in all of language than “you thick cunt” ? I don’t think so.
Cents actually being french, deriving from centime (hundredth)
Damn good answer. Straight to the point
There used to be 240 pence in a pound. So Cent wouldn’t make sense, and we ain’t the God dam French.
Pence is germanic, whereas is cent is latin.
Cent literally means one hundredth, think century or percentages.
Whereas penny comes from the Anglo-Saxons copied Charlemagne’s denomination system based around 12, not 10. In the Francophone system this was 12 deniers to 1 sou, and 240 deniers to 1 libra. Or, in Old English, 12 pennies to a shilling, and 240 pennies to a pound.
So given 1 penny wasn’t 1/100 but 1/240 of a pound, calling it a ‘cent’ wouldn’t have made sense anyway. And fast forward 1000 years, those names all stuck it out (as did the 240 pennies to a pound), at least until decimilisation was completed in the 1970s, which saw the end of all the names except penny and pound, and made the whole system base 10. But it’s not like you can just suddenly change the name to ‘cents’.
They have to learn somewhere.
What a great response 😂😂👍
Fake!
The capitalisation of the letter “B”, the comma, and the period at the end gives it away.
Honesty is sometimes the best form..
Innit
Being an American they probably thought he meant they had a Fat Minge..
Americans so smart lol
Well, it would actually make more sense to use cent, since cent is derived from century which is a hundred. The pence is carried over from pre-metric times.
Back when it was 20 shillings in a pound, 12 pence a shilling… 240 pence to a pound.
The fact we haven’t migrated to using the word cent is tradition. And as someone pointed out to me, tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
The 7 year old who asked that question probably gonna stop drawing crayon pictures of Big Ben now lol.
Why do Americans have cents and not sense? Cuz they’re poor and stupid.
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