>>>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)
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