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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is nickle plan9 acceptable?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:01:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0z35dby.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020125022657.73C2D19A9F@mail.cse.psu.edu>

rob@plan9.bell-labs.com (rob pike) writes:

> I could have sworn the coin is called a 'nickel'.

Well, it's colloquially called a nickel.  "Nickle" is of course not an
English word.

The law doesn't really give them official names, however.  The six
common coins are identified in 31 USC 5112 as:

"a dollar coin"
"a half dollar coin"
"a quarter dollar coin"
"a dime coin"
"a 5-cent coin"
"a one-cent coin"

which is of course just what is printed on the physical coins.

Thomas


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-25 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-25  2:26 rob pike
2002-01-25  3:12 ` Mike Haertel
2002-01-25 10:02   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-01-25  3:12 ` Quinn Dunkan
2002-01-25 10:01   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-01-25 10:01 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2002-01-25 12:32 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-28 11:12 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-29  2:00 okamoto
2002-01-29  6:14 ` skipt
2002-01-29 11:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-27 11:55 erik quanstrom
2002-01-27 14:43 ` Matt H
2002-01-28 11:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 17:16 George Michaelson
2002-01-25 12:35 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-28  4:45   ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2002-01-28 16:55     ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25  3:20 David Gordon Hogan
2002-01-25 12:33 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 17:01   ` Dave Lukes
2002-01-25  2:28 rob pike
2002-01-25  2:23 Russ Cox
2002-01-25 10:02 ` ozan s yigit

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