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OP In a story in s today's paper about the changing color of US paper currency I found this little word tid-bit which aroused my curiosity:
>Peach doesn't seem right, either, for a double-sawbuck. ("Sawbuck," an old term for a sawhorse, became slang for the $10 bill because of the Roman numeral X's once printed on its back, which were thought, by some, to resemble that device.) Peach, one imagines, would be fine for Thomas Jefferson, who wore velvet slippers and danced minuets. Jackson wore muddy boots.<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A954-2003Oct8.html
So from sawbucks >> bucks? (as in fifty bucks, two bucks, one buck?)
And is that story about the sawbuck/sawhorse of Snopery suspicion or true? (yeah, I know ICLIU, but)
And does anyone wanna lend me a few bucks?
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