fertbooth.blogg.se - British money translator

We use the symbol G when we want to write thousands in shorthand.įor ex: You mean he paid 300G for a house in the suburbs! It’s uncountable, so we’d say:įor ex: My son just bought a new house for three hundred thousand grand.

A grand is used when talking in thousandsĪpparently we imported the word grand, which means a thousand, from the States.

We also refer to a ten pound note as a tenner. If a British friend asks to borrow a fiver from you, he means a five pound note.

Therefore one quid, five quid, fifty quid.įor ex: I spent over a hundred quid last weekend without even realising it! The most commonly used slang term for a pound is a quid and it doesn’t have a plural. One pound is subdivided into 100 pence, the singular of which is one penny. Our currency is officially known as pounds sterling.

We opted not to join the Europe-wide currency and have stubbornly kept our pounds and pence. The British population most definitely has an island mentality and this was never more apparent than when the euro was introduced on January 1 st 1999. In this post we share the official and unofficial ways Brits refer to money. In every country there are slang terms for money.