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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:57:20 +0000, "
wrote: On 29/12/2011 00:19, Bruce wrote: Jim [wake wrote: Scottish banknotes have been at par for well over 40 years [originally they were discounted at sixpence in the pound] but even now many smaller shops don't accept them, probably because of unfamiliarity. The more likely reason is that some of the banks in England will not accept them. I believe that some banks won't accept them at all because they are not considered legal tender. Really? My bank accepts them at least for deposit. Some do, others don't. There is no list of banks that accept Scottish notes, nor of those that don't. My bank will also accept notes from Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. It won't accept any notes from Gibraltar, St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands, however. Most won't take them unless they are bundled separately from notes issued by the Bank of England That makes sense, though my bank does not charge retail customers. If you read the paragraph below, I mentioned that. Business accounts are very different; when personal bank accounts were made mostly free of bank charges, business account charges went up to compensate. The banks had to recover the lost income from somewhere. :-( Personal (as distinct from business) customers may find that their bank will accept Scottish notes out of goodwill, but the best way to get rid of them is to take them to a Post Office. You may get a less than enthusiastic reception, because accounting for Scottish notes has to be done separately and is something of a chore, but all Post Offices are expected to take them. Interesting to know. |
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:52:10 +0000, "
wrote: It is not uncommon to see fruit hawkers at markets sell fruit on the premise: "A pound of weight for a pound sterling." "A pint's a pound the world around..." People are still weighed in stone, with 1 stone equalling 14 pounds. Those of us who survived engineering school in the 1950s (even in "the colonies") can still resonate with the stone-furlong-fortnight system of units. -- Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR PNW Beburg MP 28.0 - OE District |
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In message , at 16:03:31 on
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Robert Neville remarked: Sorry - I should have made it clear - the ham was presliced, with pricing in metric and imperial units by weight. I assumed as it was priced by weight that it would be sold by weight and that my stating "approximately" 100g would have been sufficient for the server to work out how many slices that would equate to. Later I noticed that other customers were asking for sliced lunchmeats by the slice count as well - so it must be a local custom. Most people make a sandwich by counting the number of slices of meat. It's generally not paper-thin or wrinkled up, like many USA-ian sliced meat is sold. -- Roland Perry |
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In message , at 17:04:22 on
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Phil Kane remarked: It is not uncommon to see fruit hawkers at markets sell fruit on the premise: "A pound of weight for a pound sterling." "A pint's a pound the world around..." I remember buying shrimps by the pint. -- Roland Perry |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:04:13 +0000, wrote:
On 28/12/2011 02:29, Bruce wrote: Apparently several Euro zone countries - including Germany - have now completed the printing of sufficient banknotes in their own currencies to be able to cope when/if the Euro fails. I just heard that yesterday. Where? I can only find references on conspiracy sites. -- jhk |
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: In article , (Peter T. Daniels) wrote: In 1992 I bought some pound notes in Northern Ireland, because I would be staying a few days in London after my speaking engagement in Dublin. I was surprised to read on them that they were specifically Northern Ireland currency, even though the were issued by the Bank of England and legal tender throughout the United Kingdom (they said.) The clerk ("shop assistant") in the British Museum bookstore had to call the manager before she would believe it was real money. I managed to find a bank branch and exchange them for "real money" later that day, so that I could spend far too much at Blackwell's in Oxford on Saturday. (I went up to Cambridge on Sunday; I think the stores ("shops") were closed, except for a touristy establishment where the clerk thought it odd that I wanted to buy a postcard with the arms of all the colleges, like the one I had gotten in ("at"?) Oxford. Perhaps the Cambridge colleges don't get along as well as the Oxford colleges? Northern Ireland notes, like Scottish ones, are issued by local banks, not by the Bank of England so they are not legal tender. Only Bank of England notes have that status anywhere in the UK. You'd find Sunday very different here these days. it's the second busiest shopping day of the week now, despite the shorter opening hours, mainly 11-5 here. (I also liked the fusty old Ashmolean better than the newly modernized Fitzwilliam, but the Ashmolean has now been renovated as well so it probably resembles every other museum in the world.) There is still plenty of traditional museum at the Fitzwilliam! Organ scholars practicing ("practising") in every Oxford college chapel, vs. Evensong at King's College ... hmm ... (I missed the "opening hours" of the Bodleian on Saturday, because I took a bus that got caught in traffic, so on Sunday I took the train to Cambridge -- but that meant I had to sit in the narthex of St. John's College Chapel for _their_ evensong because I'd have to leave in the middle to catch the last(?) train down(?) to London. The last train would have been _up_ to London. Trains normally run up to London and down from London in this country, though there are exceptions. Which brings to mind Dr Spooner's famous saying about the Town Drain |
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Peter T. Daniels wrote:
In 1992 I bought some pound notes in Northern Ireland, because I would be staying a few days in London after my speaking engagement in Dublin. I was surprised to read on them that they were specifically Northern Ireland currency, even though the were issued by the Bank of England and legal tender throughout the United Kingdom (they said.) "Legal tender" is one of the most misunderstood concepts going. It does *not* specify which coins & notes must and must not be accepted by retailers. It merely applies to the repayment of debts - if a debtor offers payment in legal tender the creditor cannot *refuse* it without relinquishing the debt. (A semi-practical example is of tax & fee protestors eventually repaying with wheelbarrow loads of pound coins as a final gesture of defiance.) Retailers are free to accept and reject whatever notes and coins they like. Examples include: * A lot of shops don't accept the £50 note whilst some others will only accept it above a minimum purchase * A number in tourist areas and airports will accept major international currencies but with varying policies on precisely which ones and how high a denomination * A lot of shops in Northern Ireland accept the Euro to attract crossborder traffic from the Republic ....and when particular note & coins have been phased out some shops have been more willing to accept them past the official withdrawal date than others. |
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