Sylvester

Generally i dislike politicians and government, but we need some form of government for the reason Chris stated. I'm never quite sure which dierection to argue this from but my own political views are a complex mixture (at times contradictory) between classical liberalism of J S Mill, and old style conservatism. Since no modern party aspires to any of those ideals then i'm inclined not to trust any of todays parties.

Well we say "juno wa'mean" Except with us it's a little more like; 'juno warra min?" Have we gorra a Glaswegian on the board, anyone? Hmm other ones would be; pakitin = pack it in ininit = it isn't in it. I guess we're just lazy and run about three words into one and then miss words out. South Sheffield have a weird habit of replacing T's with d's... like "da what?", "What's dat den?" The Barnsley accent (gladly i don't have) is one of the most interesting. Th'a cud sey ther's nowt reyt abaart it and that nu's tha'll probably wunda what itwor all abaaht wen alll sed an dun. I still do. And then you get one area of Barnsley that have Essex accents mixed in with the broad Yorkshire (currently spreading throughout, i do it myself actually); it leads to some very interesting results; So basically they speak with all the grace of the above sentence but such things as Polo's are pronounced as Powlows, and 2 as tuwe. Alright can metamorposize in awroyt, if yer kno-ow warr mean. So it sounds like a corrupt for of south east meets stereotypical thick Yorks accents. Quite terrible. Luckily mine's not too bad, a hint of Yorks but i've picked up the Southern Twang with shoving w's after o's and i use long 'a's too here and there but not all of the time. So Master JMD would be "M-ar-ster". And Huddersfield is "Heddersfiewld" Kewl eh? And Chris it's "as commen as muck" real stress on the u there. We use strees u's for alot of things and miss h's off of everything (except when there's a 'u' after them), and we shove h's on front of words that should not have them e.g 'Ee's gottan haxe' (which should be Axe)

What is or what was your favourite subject at school?

Yes i like cockney. I love the Essex accent.

I'd agree with you, Lancashire is more tolarable until you go further west and 'there' becomes 'thur' and then it gets a bit too much, i really don't like Merseyside accents at all. I used to leave the room when Brookside was on cos it was like nails going down a blackboard to me... *shudder* Sorry to any Scousers.

I like the London accent.

I don't know Chris really. I've never met a triple Unite in the flesh, now silver halfcrowns are quite thick, but gold unites are quite thin. I'd guess that the Triple unite would be thin as you suggest. The overall density of the metal is much more than copper. The atomic mass of gold being 197 and that of copper being a mere 64... hard to argue that one really, i'd have to know the grams of both to know for sure. Undoubtedly though i'd say the silver pounds are heavier than the copper twopence or the triple unite. Silver's atomic mass is 108. So i'd reckon on the silver pound being the biggest of them all.

Not at all Chris that's why i don't bother with Ebay. I've had alot of trouble trying to explain to Americans that the UK version of Ebay has far less chioce and variety of stock on it (or less 'choice' stock in that sense), and nothing really goes for a bargin.

Yorkshire all over really, even in English we miss out words altogether. The word 'the' is seldom used in my neck of the woods. "Shut winder would yer cos it's far too drafty. And i think i'd better go to shop, yeah that one dahn road." Although admittedly i do pronounce the words more towards the Standard English than most around here, but i do slip sometimes in broadish Yorkshire, but the word 'the' is one i only use in about 50% of the cases when it should be used. Some people don't use it at all ever. *phone rings* "yeah i'm on bus". But i slip in an out of accents all the time so it annoys everyone... i have a very good French accent apparently, and i have a decent American accent, i also enjoy doing the Brummie accent, it makes me laugh. P.S i hate the Yorkshire accent with a passion everyone around here sounds thick... long drawn out and flat 'a's for everything including 'car', 'bar', 'Yalkshur'. *shudder*

yeah well i haven't done French for 4 years, i would like someone to type out the correct spelling though! I just wish my scholl had done latin (or any school/college in my area) had even offered it, cos it would have been the biggest help ever.

The only bit of French you ever need is this. Je Nais pas parlez Francais, Je suis Anglais! (haven't got a clue on the spelling but it sounds right verbally).

Biggest in weight overall dimensions, or biggest in diameter? Cos i think you find hammered silver pounds and gold triple unites were bigger in diameter. I have a feeling the triple unites would weight more too. Dunno though, silver pounds were the biggest ever.

French now there was a subject i didn't mind actually, it wasn't all bad. We had an evil teacher (but a very good one) i still think learning French at school was one of the best things i ever learned (i'm very rusty with it now) but sometimes when studying the French Revolution some of the books have quotes in French and depending upon the context sometimes i can figure out the overall jist of what it's going on about. Sometimes i can't, but it's more useful that i thought it would be. I can't remember anything from German that's a language i found just too difficult by the end, French was a doddle in comparison.

I did state clearly Oli that it was the Protestantism of the time, it's what is known as Calvinism (the Puritans went one further by living in small social groups and considering themselves the elect and would refuse to have an dealings with the remaining members of society who were the damned). The Protestantism of the period was persued rigorously by the intellectual elite, the majority of the main population were still really Catholic at heart (and you could argue that many members of todays society in the Anglican Church [CofE] still are. It's still all about ceremony and a bit of superstition). Elizabeth I was Protestant as far as we can conclude in belief but Catholic in practice... (maintaining church heirarchy), the true Protestant want to move to an elected system whereby the preacher was chosen from the elect group rather than picked by the institution, cos of course the Calvinists wanted to go back to a Jesus and diciples set up without any trimings whatsoever. The Elizabethan religious settlemnt of 1559 set down the laws in English that the church hierarchy would remain intact, colourful clerical vestments would be retained, the Pope and Purgatory etc. were dispensed with. Double Predestination (you go to heaven or hell and it's decided before birth which) was the accepted as the official religious doctrine that everyone was to be taught. She abhorred preaching and fell out with her ministers because of that issue. The interlectuals expected that there would be further reform towards their more extreme beliefs and no one ever thought that the Queen would sit unmovable on the '59 settlement, indeed nothing then changed until 1603 and as far as i'm aware the only thing to change in 1603 was the king became head of the church rather than governor. By the time we get to Charles I the Anglican set up moves in with a shift back towards Catholic practices, the abandonment of double predestination (which was reinstated under Cromwell). Undoubtedly a shift occured after this point away from the predestination back to the Catholic notion of Good Works and salvation by doing good not just by belief that you were elect.

The other day i finally managed to hold a Cartwheel twopence, it's only took me 15 years to actually meet one in person. Not as heavy as i thought they would be.

Hmm i'd say it the other way cos i like religious history the most, the Reformation. Although the Ancient pagan religions are more up my street. I've studied the German Reformation under Martin Luther (that is the only period of German history i've studied in any great depth). I still view the Reformation with mixed feelings, the iconoclasm of the reformers was terrible so many nice colourful churches and buildings plain destroyed by a bunch of vandals, but likewise they were the pioneers that saw a shift away from Rome towards a society that could begin to think more rationally and not one that would always believe adamantly that the world is flat and the sun goes around it just cos the Church said so. If the Reformation hadn't happened the few that did question the church would have found themselves more easily singled out for elimination, not that it helped Galileo much. Then we come to the utter indecisiveness of Henry VIII, the little brat that was Edward VI, the Marian burnings, Elizabeth I's indecivness and shrewd move towards Protestantism. One slight problem i have with this period is that i have a habit of taking sides and not remaining objective. It's almost a god given fact that regardless of the situation i always side with the looser or with the oldest of the two. So i always side with the Catholics against the Protestants, i know that shouldn't happen but it does. (Like i always side with Harold II rather than William I, Or with Æthelred II rather than Swein, or Richard II rather than Henry IV... and even Richard III rather than Henry VII even if the latter was my fave king). Having studied both early modern Catholicism and Protestantism, i've got to admit Catholicism seems the best of the two in that period. Lemme see; Catholics = Many holidays, talking in church, attend irregularly but at least for once near easter for recieving the wafer, many festivals and lots of opportunity to get drunk if you like that kinda thing. Protestantism (Calvinist form as was the standard in Elizabethan England) = Read the bible in English, understand the bible, good works do not matter cos it's already been decided whether you are going to heaven or hell regardless of what you do (double predestination), must wear drab colours, must fast, no alcohol, no festivals, no enjoyment, wear black and white, live an humble life, go to church at least twice a day and more on sundays, all churches should have all statues, stained glass windows and all other ornament removed and the altar replaced with a table, walls white washed. (Oliver Cromwell came from this viewpoint). Who would you have sided with? If it hadn't been for Luther i could have been buying an indulgence right now.

Nuclear physics is fantastic. Dunno why but it extremely intriguing. I almost saw myself quite wanting a job along those lines, but i decided that working in a nuclear power plant would not help me in the long run. Yeah they say they are safe, but are they really. There's probably alot of cutting corners that even the management don't know about. I once heard a bus driver who had worked in a chemical plant say that the plant had some rather dubious practices, one guy didn't follow the safety procedures correctly and had a very nasty accident with highly concentrate sulphuric acid... he survived but he needs alot of surgery, a few skin grafts, a new arm and a new face.

Actually until year 9 when i got introduced to the wonders of chemistry, history had been my fave subject. But in Y9 the history we were doing went down hill fast as it was not my preferred period. We started on the god awful Industrial Revolution, farming, then we moved to Czarist Russia and the Russian Revolution, then WWI (probably the most boring historical event), the the gloom of the depression. Y10-11 was slightly better, American West, History of Medicine from Prehistoric-20th century and Irish Political History 1921-1997. I figured out long ago that i hate modern British history with a passion and anything after say 1660 is not all that interesting to me, and i'd go miles to avoid it. I'd rather do the French Revolution. (which i am actually doing). Y7-8 was the best; The Norman Conquest to Charles I. Anything medieval or Early modern and you've got my interest. Anything Henry VII or Mary Tudor and you've really got my interest. Good old Henry pity his son was such a waste of space, and alot of space too.

I used to love having to think about balancing chemical formulas and doing such things as displacement reactions and working out whether it was ionic or covalent bonding and the best bit was the shell structures. 8 is stable! Except it was 2 on the first shell. I didn't persue the subject beyond GCSE because my mathematic skills were appalling and i disliked biology and i had a love/hate relationship with physics (i hated all the forces/motion/electricity stuff) too much maths, but i loved the nuclear physics (Which was really chemistry when all said and done) side of it and of course the space/solar system etc side (which was kind of an abstract almost philosophical side of physics, Big Bang theory, steady state theory etc.) History was my second fave, with drama in third. English i merely disliked, Geography i hated with a passion.

Mine was Chemistry.

Yeah cos £2 is worth more... so much more too lose, it's better to lose €2.

any tin ones?

Coincraft has those. I think Collectors' Coins has them too.

Well i wouldn't say that, not by a long way. Although i've remembered alot of it, but i'd still have to reference where it had come from as you should do in all proper works. Coinpeople is different cos it is not being published and since the site is a non-profit oraganisation it is there merely for interted parties to read at their leisure. If it was for anything commercial it would be done properly all properly annotated and with footnotes. Supplied with a bibliography.

That would require a crediting of Coincraft where i got alot of the info from, the rest was based upon deductions i had made, no idea how accurate on the total mintages kindly supplied by Eliza.