** My pet peeve is the use of the word "P" or "Pee" for penny/pence in UK currency, which jars on my ears. This came about after the decimalisation in 1971(?) when we had Old pennies/pence shown as "d." and New pennies shown as "p." At the time it was necessary to distinguish but I would much prefer people reverted to using pence. I have a one man campaign going but without much success.

Your loneliness is about to be relieved, Rod. I detest the usage of "p" instead of "pence", too. In fact, I'd like to promote the re-use of "denarius", personally, but I somehow think that would be a lost cause before it got off the ground.

But using "p" always sounds like the price of spending a penny to me!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...