SLANG TERMS
In England most of tho general slang; terms for money eoiuo from workshops. Foundry workers in Lancashire call money ‘‘brass”. Carpenters call it “chips,” fishermongers call it “haddock,” and goldsmiths name it “dust.” Leath-er-workers call the sixpence a “tanner.” A salary is termed a “screw” because wages were formerly screwed up in paper bags and handed to employees. “Quid” probably came from the phrase “Quid pro quo.” A man being offered something on sale, might sav: “1 have not any quid for you quo.”
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Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1049, 25 November 1947, Page 2
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86SLANG TERMS Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1049, 25 November 1947, Page 2
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