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When I spent that funny Canadian bill I talked about in the last entry, I got a bunch of coins back. There was a one dollar coin, and also a two dollar coin, which momentarily fascinated me because it's made of two metals, like they plopped a small bronze coin into the middle of a regular-sized silver one. Also because it was shiny. But it's really that one dollar one I'm gonna make fun of. It's got a loon on the back of it, and had you asked me what to call it when I was staring at it outside Legendary Noodle, I would have said 'a dollar.'
Nope. It's a loonie.
A loonie. Canadians call it that. Never mind that it's because there's a loon on the back of it, they call it a loonie. And that two dollar one? It's a toonie. If you wanted three bucks off a Canadian, you could say, "Hey, gimme a loonie toonie!"
It's my shortcoming that I think this is funny. I'm just being country-centric. What does 'dollar' mean, right? But as long as the rest of the world hates Americans anyway, I'm gonna giggle a little.
Nope. It's a loonie.
A loonie. Canadians call it that. Never mind that it's because there's a loon on the back of it, they call it a loonie. And that two dollar one? It's a toonie. If you wanted three bucks off a Canadian, you could say, "Hey, gimme a loonie toonie!"
It's my shortcoming that I think this is funny. I'm just being country-centric. What does 'dollar' mean, right? But as long as the rest of the world hates Americans anyway, I'm gonna giggle a little.
posted by Phil at 5:46 PM
2 Comments:
I didn't know that's how it was in Ca-nah'-da. It's the same in Europe. Coins up to two Euros, then paper cash. Makes sense, really. At least in France. England is still clutching the pounds thing like rabid bulldogs.
Coins up to two pounds in Britain too. We largely got rid of the pound note in the 1980s.
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