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I'm with eta, here. The phrase "a dollar bill" defaults to a one dollar bill. The way it's presented here you have to shift gears when faced with "of any denomination."
How else to say it? I think Jackie got it when she asked, "have you ever seen just a part of a bill sticking out of somewhere …" (emphasis mine)
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Hi Jackie,
I have been really sick. Had surgery and all so finally after a year of pain and hardly being able to get out of bed, I am up and running around pain free.
Good to see you. Hugs.
Rev. Alimae
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I'm with eta too. I'm just wondering why. 
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Reminds me of those in the South who call soda (or is it pop) generically coke. I'd probably say, "US currency of any denomination." But that's me. (There's a couple of presidents I'd like to de-nominate.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I mean the dollar/dollar rift. I'll see if I can formulate the question better when I get to work (just too busy, here at home ;;)).
(We ain't the only ones with dollars, neither, btw).
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Holy cow, Alimae--how horrible for you! Belated (that first came out bleated!) sympathies. Glad you're feeling better!
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a dollar bill, of any denomination I just realized that, to prevent changing mental gears for the second part, I'd have to put a different emPHAsis (hi, tsuwm) in the first: I say 'one DOLlar', but 'a one-dollar BILL'; so to not be thrown by the second part of the phrase, I'd have to think-read the first as "a (something)-dollar BILL". They should have put an x- or even a fill-in-the-blank space before that first 'dollar'.
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Glad you're feeling better Ali.
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Thank you Jackie, I truly appriciate that.
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eta, maybe this will help: have you ever seen just a part of a bill sticking out of somewhere, and wondered what denomination it was? Nah, you can usually tell by the colour 
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bel--PHHHHBBBBBBBBBTTTTTT! Actually, I think it would be excellent if the U.S. changed its bills significantly; NZ's are really cool--they have these little plastic inserts: Sir Edmund Hillary Of course, the time is likely coming eventually when we won't even HAVE actual money.
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