Wordwind sez..."...did he mix financial references? Is there a word for doing so? I don't think he should have done it."

Wrongo, Princess among Peas, better clarity than ground rule consistantcy. A hundred years ago a gallery in Ireland that paid for pantings in american dollars would be considered curious if not suspect. And today everyone, even the English, knows how much $1,500 is worth. I hope there is not and will never be, a word that means " the act of being numixmatical". As it is, too many English words clutter the American Language that we love and speak.