A sensible decision, and one other countries have made before. If anything, this would probably have happened sooner, if US coins didn’t have affectionate nicknames that tended to accumulate sentimental associations. (There are a lot of sayings mentioning pennies, which will now lapse into the realm of archaism, alongside nursery rhymes mentioning pre-decimal British currency. There will also be dudes keen to explain that, actually, a penny was a 1c coin, and some of them will get the details confidently wrong.)
I can think of “penny for your thoughts,” and “I don’t give a red cent,” and arguably the very concept of “penny loafers,” but all of those are already fairly archaic. What are some others?
A sensible decision, and one other countries have made before. If anything, this would probably have happened sooner, if US coins didn’t have affectionate nicknames that tended to accumulate sentimental associations. (There are a lot of sayings mentioning pennies, which will now lapse into the realm of archaism, alongside nursery rhymes mentioning pre-decimal British currency. There will also be dudes keen to explain that, actually, a penny was a 1c coin, and some of them will get the details confidently wrong.)
I can think of “penny for your thoughts,” and “I don’t give a red cent,” and arguably the very concept of “penny loafers,” but all of those are already fairly archaic. What are some others?
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