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To: SkyDancer

No, there were no dishes for a pound. 1/ = one shilling.


68 posted on 05/06/2021 12:21:24 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: dinodino
No, there were no dishes for a pound. 1/ = one shilling.

There were very eligible young people in Jane Austin's novels that were "getting twelve hundred a year." Now that number makes a lot more sense.

69 posted on 05/06/2021 12:27:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: dinodino

Been through that in previous posts.


70 posted on 05/06/2021 12:29:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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