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Compare quoin, coign, and coin. The brief etymology in my dictionary traces them all back to a word for "wedge" which
goes back to "culex" = gnat (also mosquito)possibly figure of speech about the blood sucking apparatus. The mosquito
has three needles side by side, twp of them capable of being alternately rapidly thrust forward, a very sharp wedge, which pierces tiny blood vessel, injects anticoagulant, and capilarry attraction makes the three closely spaced needles
draw up the blood.
Possibly small wedges of silver were used for money before round coins wer made.And wedges cut from coins were used as money fairly recently "Shave and haircut, two bits!"
Pieces of eight, etc.
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Dear maverick: I wish my memory were as good as yours.
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yeahbut®
you've got the advantage of more to try and store, Bill :)
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Dear maverick: I ain't got much between the ears these days.
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wwh Haven't you heard? It ain't how much you got, it's how you use it 
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Dear Zed: I can't use that either.
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And this, ladies and gents, is another of AWAD's "Call of the Groin" tales.
Oh, sorry. We're talking about quoins, I see--not groins.
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No, no, the groynes are in the Breakers thread in metawords, below the waistline.
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"The groins of the loins" sounds like a line from a limerick. "Moine" is French for monk, isn't it?
"There was a young girl from Des Moines
Who resented gropes in her groins....
Let see you finish it.
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