Pete wrote:

When I started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint
for Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d
difference was a lot of money at those prices.

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.
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Pete wrote:

When I started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint
for Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d
difference was a lot of money at those prices.

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.
--

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".

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wrote:

"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
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Pete wrote:

When I started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint
for Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d
difference was a lot of money at those prices.

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.
--

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".



That's one foot three inches.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

"Graeme Wall" wrote

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".

That's one foot three inches.

or one minute three seconds (of arc).

Peter

"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
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Pete wrote:

When I started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint
for Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d
difference was a lot of money at those prices.

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your
prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.
--

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".



That's one foot three inches.

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Indeed it is, but I believe that such quotation marks are used for other
things as well.

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"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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In message
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"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
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Pete wrote:

When I started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint
for Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d
difference was a lot of money at those prices.

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your
prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.
--

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".



That's one foot three inches.

--
Indeed it is, but I believe that such quotation marks are used for other
things as well.



As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience, for
monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling and
pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 22:42:27 +0100, Graeme Wall wrote

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your
prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".

That's one foot three inches.

Indeed it is, but I believe that such quotation marks are used for other
things as well.

As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience, for
monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling and
pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that.

I was also around during the pre-decimal era and only ever remember seeing
£SD written as 3s 6d or 3/6

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Stimpy wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 22:42:27 +0100, Graeme Wall wrote

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your
prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".

That's one foot three inches.

Indeed it is, but I believe that such quotation marks are used for
other things as well.

As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience,
for monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling
and pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that.

I was also around during the pre-decimal era and only ever remember seeing
£SD written as 3s 6d or 3/6



3/6d had a certain vogue in shops that traditionally had a creative way with
apostrophe's.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

Stimpy wrote:

I was also around during the pre-decimal era and only ever remember seeing
£SD written as 3s 6d or 3/6

But when you got into the pounds there were more possibilities: £1/3/6,
£1 3s 6d,
£1-3-6, £1:3:6 etc. (also 23/6 from time to time, not least on railway
tickets - in the new issue of RM there is a picture of a ticket for the
"15 guinea special", with the price shown as "315s."(.

Peter Beale

Graeme Wall wrote:

As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience, for
monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling and
pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that.

I suppose it could, if ° was the sign for a pound (which of course it
isn't) as used for degrees/minutes/seconds.

Peter Beale