Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!druri!jhs From: jhs@druri.UUCP (ShoreJ) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.jokes Subject: Re: Ah ! The Good Old Times Message-ID: <1105@druri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 15:18:35 EDT Article-I.D.: druri.1105 Posted: Tue Jun 25 15:18:35 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 01:24:26 EDT References: <1046@peora.UUCP> <305@ihlpa.UUCP> <196@frog.UUCP>, <196@persci.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.misc:8176 net.jokes:13019 { If you got article 5433, apologies. It was incomplete and I posted it quite unintentionally....There's many a slip 'twixt lip and ship. :-) } Regarding origin of "dollar": According to the 1980 edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, `dollar' comes from the Low German `Taler'. Taler is the short form of `Joachimstaler' which means "a coin made with metal from Joachimstahl", the Czech town of Jachymov located in the Erzgebirge Mountains. No Indo-European root is shown in this case. Your guess of `dolore' as the basis for dollar is nicely metaphorical but probably not accurate. -- Jeff Shore (former member of Dial-A-Pedant, Inc.) ..!druri!jhs "Where worlds collide..."