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cars wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:25 pm And the association to "currency" IS?

cars wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:25 pm And the association to "currency" IS?

As applied to people rather than money, the term originally had derogatory connotations – by the early 1820s, "currency had stuck for male and female native-born and everyone knew what it implied". However, it was soon reclaimed by the native-born as a positive term, in order to distinguish themselves from more recent arrivals. In Two Years in New South Wales, published in 1827, Peter Miller Cunningham wrote: "Our colonial-born brethren are best known here by the name of Currency, in contradistinction to Sterling, or those born in the mother-country. The name was originally given by a facetious paymaster of the 73rd Regiment quartered here–the pound currency being at that time inferior to the pound sterling." In 1832, Horatio Wills – born in Sydney in 1811 to a convict father – founded The Currency Lad. It was "the first newspaper published in the colony which specifically set out to protect the interests of the native-born".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_lads_and_lasses

spot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:15 pm That concord had an e on the end, the French insisted.




Bust

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:25 am

spot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:15 pm That concord had an e on the end, the French insisted.




Bust

Don't you pick holes in my choices of association when yours are completely off the wall!

Mine makes sense.

Broke

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:34 amCustard

cars wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:03 pm

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:34 amCustard

Carvel

spot wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:59 pm

cars wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:03 pm

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:34 amCustard

Carvel

You may both mock but I generally come up with a good explanation if asked.

Though how Custard gets to Carvel I'm not sure.




Frigate.

cars wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:26 pm "Carvel" is the Brand name here in USA, of one of the largest "Ice cream custard" stores selling ice cream.


Spots Last word was: Accompany


paid

spot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:16 am

cars wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:26 pm "Carvel" is the Brand name here in USA, of one of the largest "Ice cream custard" stores selling ice cream.


Spots Last word was: Accompany


paid

I will confess the brand had heretofore escaped my notice.

On the other hand I'm clearly discovering new things here. How, for instance, does accompany invoke paid?

I'll move on from paid to





waterproof

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:01 am

oilers


paid company - an escort?

spot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:24 am

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:01 am

oilers


paid company - an escort?

1. If "escort" has shifted to that extent, I'm clearly not going to offer to escort anyone again. Or I could start charging, I suppose.

2.You're chancing your arm with oilers, there's places where that's a bit derogatory. Texas springs to mind.




sycophants

spot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:49 pmfinger