Are people's £ key broken?

Rimsy

Rimsy

Rimsy

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Pretty random question but I've noticed a lot of people will write pounds rather than just use the symbol... Eg £100 becomes 100 pounds (or in some extreme cases we get £100 pounds)
Is there a reason for this? Seems a localised oddity!
 
There seems to be a lot of people using $ signs recently as well, when presumably they aren’t talking about $, rather £.
 
They are probably posting using a phone and it's easier to write it than find the £ key on a different keyboard screen.
 
Unless your a sofa shop advertising on tv then it’s no currency at all, it’s just FIVE NINE NINE, not pounds, not anything. I should go in with five nine nine buttons.
 
cyber69 said:
Unless your a sofa shop advertising on tv then it’s no currency at all, it’s just FIVE NINE NINE, not pounds, not anything. I should go in with five nine nine buttons.
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That would be enough buttons to be inconvenient. You could just write the numbers on pieces of paper, since all they're asking for is the numbers.

Someone bought a copy of Fallout 4 with bottlecaps. Worth a try for that sofa :)
 
Rimsy said:
Pretty random question but I've noticed a lot of people will write pounds rather than just use the symbol... Eg £100 becomes 100 pounds (or in some extreme cases we get £100 pounds)
Is there a reason for this? Seems a localised oddity!
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I don't know about that, but what really irks me is this new trend of people putting the pound sign after the value, i.e. 100£. It's as bad as the other retarded new trend where people put a space before any punctuation mark.
 
Windows swaps mine around, also does it with @ and ", it's annoying but I'm not sure why it swaps and can't be bothered to fix it.
 
Malevolence said:
I don't know about that, but what really irks me is this new trend of people putting the pound sign after the value, i.e. 100£.
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[awkward git]Perhaps they are moving towards the scientific thing of replacing a decimal point in a value with the unit, e.g. 4.2k ohms would be stylised as 4k2 ohms; 4.2 ohms would be 4R2....it means in poor copy print we don't miss the point. Perhaps we should do it with money, 100 pounds and fifty three pence would be 100£53, perhaps they were just expressing £100 as 100£00, 100£ after dropping the surplus zeros[/awkward git]

Not that I am defending it, but if we weren't so used to writing £100, then 100£ would be more logical, what other unit of measurement used them that way round?.... 100km, 100Kg, 100Kwh, 100Gb, 100dpi, 100tpi, 100ms, 100mG, 100", 100mL, 100gsm, 100 BPM, 100 MPH, 100 lux, 100 Db, 100RPM
 
Rimsy said:
Pretty random question but I've noticed a lot of people will write pounds rather than just use the symbol... Eg £100 becomes 100 pounds (or in some extreme cases we get £100 pounds)
Is there a reason for this? Seems a localised oddity!
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I prefer 100lbs.
 
Funnily enough I tend to use GBP. Routinely working in multiple currencies, when the business started doing a lot in Canada as well as the USA we had to start differentiating $ and the natural way to do that is USD and CAD. This lead to GBP too for consistency and it sticks with me away from work.
 
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