Re: DRE: CTS community mail

  • From: Di Lhong <geosaurus8@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:37:00 +0200

Nice.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Ilitirit Sama <ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Trivia for today.
>
> Ever wondered why the sign for a dollar is an S with a line through it?
>
> Originated from a "piece of eight", or *peso de ocho*, which was the
> Spanish dollar.  The plural of Peso was Pesos, or Ps.  Eventually they
> thought it would be a cool idea to merge the P and the S (wtf).  And then
> that eventually became the dollar sign we know today.
>
> [image:
> http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--uOXopszK--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/owfeiyfhrnajtuklhxw1.png]
>

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