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From: steiny@idsvax.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: Re: Ah !  The Good Old Times
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:23:56 EDT
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>
> 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.