Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.4 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!authorplaceholder From: grass@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: Ah ! The Good Old Times Message-ID: <10500059@uiucdcsb> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 10:01:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.10500059 Posted: Fri Jun 28 10:01:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 07:16:18 EDT References: <176@idsvax.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:idsvax.UUCP:-17600:uiucdcsb:10500059:000:754 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!grass Jun 28 09:01:00 1985 /* Written 11:23 am Jun 24, 1985 by steiny@idsvax.UUCP in uiucdcsb:net.nlang */ > > By the way, does anybody know the origin of the word 'dollar'? I've never met *** It is not from romance languages! According to the American Heritage Dictionary: Low German: "daler", from German "Taler", "taler," short for "Joachimsthal," Jachymov, town in the Erzgebrige Mountians, Czecoslovakia. /* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.nlang */ Joachimsthal (Jachymov) was (maybe still is?) a major silver mining town. The Thaler (Taler) was a unit of money used up until the 19th century in parts of Germany. Probably some were minted in Jaochimsthal. - Judy Grass, University of Illinois - Urbana {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!grass grass%uiuc.arpa