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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread sawbucks and bucks #113547 10/13/2003 3:08 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sawbucks and bucks #113548 10/18/2003 9:17 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... What the buck? Where'd everybody go? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sawbucks and bucks #113549 10/20/2003 1:24 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Prolly back to here, Sweetie: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=85385 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sawbucks and bucks #113550 10/20/2003 2:23 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Yeah (I thought this might be a little Yartsy-Fartsy) but©...there ain't no buck there. And did buck come from sawbuck?...sometimes the obvious analogy t'aint so. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sawbucks and bucks #113551 10/20/2003 12:45 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I bleeve the standard explanation for buck is that it derived from the practice of using deer(buck)skins for trade purposes. Course it might could be UL. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sawbucks and bucks #113552 10/20/2003 12:57 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Right as usual, Faldage! From Gurunet: buck3 (bŭk) n. Informal. 1. A dollar. 2. An amount of money: working overtime to make an extra buck. [Short for BUCKSKIN (from its use in trade).] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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