tim..... wrote:
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Bout time the fiver was scrapped of and made coin only at one time if
you had a fiver in your pocket you felt you where rich but not any
more.
You can't even get them from the "wailing wall".

Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.

The BoE has loads of fivers, printed and ready to
ship, to replace all the tatty worn out notes that are
still circulated and the high street banks don't want
to take them.

If the Bank of England sends the notes to me, I'll put them into
circulation.

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

In article , James Farrar
writes
The last HITW I knew that gave out fivers was at the Barclays at
Gloucester Road, but that stopped three or four years ago.

The ones in or near college bars are a good place to try. Number One Son
gets fivers out of the machine at his university.

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:03:01 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:


Number One Son
gets fivers out of the machine at his university.

Now this is something that many people say that really winds me up
it ISN'T HIS university at all saying "the university he attends would
be more accurate"

Is English your first language? That seems a little excessively pedantic.

When our local wailing wall had £5s and £10s it would always run out on
a Saturday lunch time. Now it has £10s and £20s it seems to be good
for the whole of the weekend.

Went into a cash machine inside a branch of Barclays today and upon
pressing the 'Any other amount' button was pleasantly surprised to see
at the bottom of the screen 'Notes available: £5 £10 £20.' Took out £75
in three denominations. I've never seen it before, anyway.

Blimey, where?

The last HITW I knew that gave out fivers was at the Barclays at
Gloucester Road, but that stopped three or four years ago.

Maybe it's a Barclays thing. I got a crisp £5 out of a cashpoint inside
a Barclays in Birmingham this afternoon.

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:04:47 +0100, Martyn Dawe
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:52 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Ian F.) wrote:

wrote in message
ps.com...

Are they coins or notes, or both?

Notes only at present.

Apart from some commemorative coins which don't circulate. The Five
Pounds coin replaces the traditional Crown in that area.


according to the royal mint web site the Crown is 25p !


airy not since 1990. the 5 pound coin is now a Crown- check out the
royal mint web site.

Dave Newt wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:03:01 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:


Number One Son
gets fivers out of the machine at his university.

Now this is something that many people say that really winds me up
it ISN'T HIS university at all saying "the university he attends
would be more accurate"

Is English your first language? That seems a little excessively
pedantic.

"A little excessively"? ;-)

In article , John Rowland
writes
Is English your first language? That seems a little excessively
pedantic.
"A little excessively"? ;-)

All right: a lot excessively.

[And this is *me* talking.]

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

In article , James Farrar
writes

The last HITW I knew that gave out fivers was at the Barclays at
Gloucester Road, but that stopped three or four years ago.

The ones in or near college bars are a good place to try. Number One Son
gets fivers out of the machine at his university.

Funny you should say that - the example i was thinking of was a Barclays
machine on Turl Street in Oxford, within stumbling distance of quite a few
pubs and bars, that does fivers. Or at least, did last time i used it,
which was admittedly quite a while ago.

So, if the Bank of England has these fivers, but the high street banks
don't want to take them, why doesn't it just put its foot down - for every
two tenners they get, they have to take a fiver too, for example. One of
the advantages of having a monopoly position, surely!

tom

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of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears
in its greatest simplicity. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Dave Newt wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:03:01 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:

Number One Son gets fivers out of the machine at his university.

Now this is something that many people say that really winds me up it
ISN'T HIS university at all saying "the university he attends would be
more accurate"

Is English your first language? That seems a little excessively
pedantic.

That's an interesting way of spelling 'completely wrong'.

The OED, on the various subtly different uses of 'his':

"Also used with objects which are not one's property, but which one ought
to have, or has specially to deal with (e.g. to kill his man, to gain his
blue), or which are the common possession of a class, in which every one
is assumed to have his share (e.g. he knows his Bible, his Homer, his
Hudibras, he has forgotten his Greek, his arithmetic, etc.)."

Interestingly, the earliest quotation they have for this sense is from
1709, rather later than the 9th-century first uses for the other major
senses. I wonder if this is an artefact of quotation, or a real change in
usage, and if so, how this relation was expressed before the change.

Cross-posting to alt.usage.english to see if anyone knows!

tom

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One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department
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in its greatest simplicity. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs