Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc12.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc12!wa371 From: wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (Senior Gnome) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.jokes Subject: Re: Ah ! The Good Old Times Message-ID: <397@sdcc12.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 02:11:12 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcc12.397 Posted: Thu Jun 27 02:11:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:44:27 EDT Organization: Snow White's Council of Elves, San Diego Lines: 13 Keywords: usury Xref: watmath net.misc:8174 net.jokes:13015 Summary: meaning of Joachimstaler > Regarding origin of "dollar": > > According to the 1980 edition of "The American Heritage Dictionary...", > dollar comes from the Low German `Taler', a short form of `Joachimstaler' > meaning "a coin made with metal from Joachim Not exactly: ..Joachimstal means 'Joachim's valley', and Joachimstaler is someone or something from Joachimstal. Just the same, it is nice to know that the Dollar is a valley. I suspected it all along! Cheers, Bernd*** hooray for USENET *** UUCP: ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371, ARPA: sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371@nosc