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>Yeah, in UK a shilling used to be nicknamed "bob", as in "could you lend me 10 bob?" (50p) or, in typical British understatement "he's worth a few bob" (That guy is rich). I've still heard Aussies using such expressions on the TV.>
>Ok. So what's a "quid"?
A quid is a pound just as a buck is a dollar. Like "bob" it has no plural, hence "ten quid". You can say "it only cost a quid" but never "one quid". I've heard cockneys referring to it as a "Sov" (presumably short for a "sovereign", which is an old term for a pound coin, especially gold)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
