On 05/12/2013 08:49, Adrian wrote:
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:47:01 +0000, Reentrant wrote:

CWT, £sd - modern kids would have an aneurism!

A question on this week's University Challenge was "how many shillings
are half a crown plus sixpence plus a florin?". Neither team got it
right.

You seem to be forgetting one small detail. £sd went the way of the dodo
over twenty years before any of those contestants were even born... Their
parents would probably struggle to remember whatever the **** a florin
and a crown were.

Farthings and groats were gone long before I was born - but I knew what
they were by the time I was of university age.

--
Rod