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Word of the Day – JETON 30 May 2012 | 03:00 pm
JETON \JET.un\ n. a coin-like token often used to represent money in casino games, dispensing machines etc; also JETTON Strictly speaking, a jeton is not really ‘money’, but I figured it was close eno...
Word of the Day – KWANZA 29 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
KWANZA \KWAHN.zuh\ n. the basic monetary unit of Angola, pl. -S The main subunit of the kwanza is the CENTIMO, there being 100 centimos to one kwanza. Prior to 1990 the subunit was the LWEI, pronounce...
Word of the Day – DANEGELD 28 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
DANEGELD \DANE.geld\ n. a tax collected in Anglo-Saxon times to pay off Viking raiders; also DANEGELT Since a GELD is a tax that was paid to the crown in Anglo-Saxon times, today’s word means literall...
Word of the Day – WAMPUM 27 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
WAMPUM \WOM.pum\ n. beads made from shells and used as a trading currency with natives in some parts of colonial North America Wampum is short for WAMPUMPEAG, and is therefore sometimes shortened to P...
Word of the Day – SIMOLEON 26 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
SIMOLEON \suh.MOW.lee.un\. n. an old US slang term for one dollar Nobody seems to be certain of the history of this word, with most dictionaries preceding vague guesses with ‘perhaps’ or ‘thought to b...
Word of the Day – DALASI 25 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
DALASI \dah.LAH.see\ n. the basic unit of currency of Gambia, pl. -S The dalasi is subdivided into the BUTUT (pronounced something like \BOO.toot\), there being 100 bututs in one dalasi.
Word of the Day – USURY 24 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
USURY \YOO.zhuh.ree\ n. the lending of money at excessive, often unlawful, interest rates One who practices usury is known as a USURER, and their behavior can be described as USURIOUS. The much despis...
Word of the Day – KUNA 24 May 2012 | 12:58 pm
KUNA \KOO.nuh\ n. the basic monetary unit of Croatia, pl. KUNA or KUNE The kuna is divided into a subunit called a LIPA (pl. LIPE or LIPA), there being 100 lipe to the kuna. The names of Croatian curr...
Word of the Day – SOM 22 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
SOM \sohm\ n. the basic monetary unit of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan Although this currency is a pretty handy three letter word in its own right, what I like most about it is the smaller unit into which...
Word of the Day – PIEDFORT 21 May 2012 | 07:00 pm
PIEDFORT \pee.AY.for\ n. a specially minted edition of a coin that is much thicker and heavier than normal. Also PIEFORT A piedfort is traditionally twice the weight of its standard version, and histo...
