Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site idsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!idsvax!steiny From: steiny@idsvax.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: Ah ! The Good Old Times Message-ID: <176@idsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:23:56 EDT Article-I.D.: idsvax.176 Posted: Mon Jun 24 12:23:56 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:15:39 EDT References: <1046@peora.UUCP> <305@ihlpa.UUCP> <196@frog.UUCP> <196@persci.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Independent Consultant - C/UNIX, Natural Language Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.misc:8155 net.nlang:3265 > > By the way, does anybody know the origin of the word 'dollar'? I've never met > anyone who does. The nearest word to it is the Spanish (Latin?) 'dolore', > which, I'm told, means 'pain'. > -- > Bill Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill *** 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.