[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by binand

Do you know the etymology of "quid" for pound?

You have caught me out. I've never thought about it, and no, I don't know. I'll look it up.

I didn't know about buckskin either. Thanks!

[tilt]

Originally Posted by binand

*SNIP*

Do you know the etymology of "quid" for pound?

I am merely guessing wildly here, but could it probably have something to do with "quid pro quo"? Like, I shall give you so much quid for this much quo?

Cheers

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by tilt

I am merely guessing wildly here, but could it probably have something to do with "quid pro quo"?

The internet has some sympathy with that. Google Define, however, (which I consider excellent these days; saves me getting big books off shelves!) says "late 17th century (denoting a sovereign): of obscure origin."

[anupmathur]

Interesting reading in this context: https://fourthgarrideb.com/2015/09/1...-crown-really/

[S15]

Originally Posted by binand

In the US it is $1000. In UK, £1000. With PPP in mind, using "Big one" for ₹1,00,000 seems totally OK to me.

Pretty sure no one uses "big ones" in the US.

Grand is what I have commonly heard. eg "The Civic Type-R is a 38 grand car"

[binand]

Originally Posted by S15

Pretty sure no one uses "big ones" in the US.

Both Collins and Merriam-Webster list it, though.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20ones

big one (informal) : a thousand dollars

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...nglish/big-one

big one (slang) : a one-thousand-dollar bill or the sum of one thousand dollars

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by S15

Grand is what I have commonly heard.

Grand is a thousand "quid" in British English too.

I've never heard "big one." But then, I haven't heard much at all in UK for the last decade: I don't spend much time there.

[comfortablynumb]

Have proof-readers been made redundant in media outlets these days? Saw this on rediff today.

[mayankk]

Originally Posted by comfortablynumb

Have proof-readers been made redundant in media outlets these days? Saw this on rediff today.

I know!!
How can they misspell egregious?

[samaspire]

Originally Posted by comfortablynumb

Have proof-readers been made redundant in media outlets these days? Saw this on rediff today.

It's probably a play on the fact that she's GORI (very fair)

PS: Any chance she resides at Goregaon?

[lonetraveller89]

Apologies if this is the wrong thread for this post. Among other observations, I find it amusing how our members always end their rebuttals with a . Is this a common practice in forums?

[binand]

Originally Posted by lonetraveller89

Among other observations, I find it amusing how our members always end their rebuttals with a . Is this a common practice in forums?

Yes, I believe the original purpose of these emoticons was to express emotions / facial expressions in Internet chat. See:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

[lonetraveller89]

Originally Posted by binand

Yes, I believe the original purpose of these emoticons was to express emotions / facial expressions in Internet chat.

I was referring to the tongue-in-cheek aspect of these responses. But thank you for your response, will check out the link.

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by lonetraveller89

Apologies if this is the wrong thread for this post. Among other observations, I find it amusing how our members always end their rebuttals with a . Is this a common practice in forums?

Read it not as a smiley face but as a smart arse

[Guite]

This thread has been dormant for quite sometime now. Let me wake it up to talk about my pet peeve these days.

It's random capitalization. People apparently use it to stress certain words. To me as a reader it seems pretty random, I find it difficult to read. It's a trend I dislike. It does not have any grammatical basis.

Talking of grammar, they capitalize random words but do not capitalize proper nouns like name of place, city, brand name, etc. They have the time to press shift key for random words but no time for it where required by grammar rules.

Another pet peeve not related to this forum is space before and after punctuation marks. The rule being no space before punctuation marks, but always space after it. It's strange that this trend of wrong placement of space (most common mistake being no space after comma and full stop) has come up recently in official documents, product packaging, software apps. We have been using English for many decades, product packaging used to have properly formatted text. It seems as if everything is being dumbed down, and that there is an overall casual attitude to writing correctly.