Money slang in English $$$

Hello. I'm going to teach you today about money. Do you like money? Most people do.

I hate money. Money ruins people's lives. It destroys families. But we need money to

live and buy things, so it is important. That's why I'm going to teach you about it. I'm going

to teach you some vocabulary that maybe you have never heard before. "Coin," "cash," "bucks,"

and "dollars." All of these words mean "money." "Coin" or "coins" refer to un-paper money,

ones like these -- $0.25, $0.10, $0.05, $0.01. "Cash" is usually paper money. "Bucks" is

actually slang for dollars. So you have "coin," "cash," "bucks," and "dollars."

Now, in Canada, we do not have $1 or $2 bills -- paper money -- anymore. There's another

one, "bills." So we say "one-dollar bill," "two-dollar bills." What we have in Canada

are coins of $1 and $2 values. So the very first coin that we got was a "loonie." A "loonie"

-- I wish I had a "loonie" -- is eight-sided. It's gold, and it has a picture of a "loon."

It's $1. Then, many years later, we got rid of our $2 bills, and they developed another

coin that's a "toonie." Now, a "loonie" has a "loon" on one side and a "queen" on the

other side. Can you guess what a "toonie" has on one side of the coin? What do you think?

"Loonie," "toonie"? It's a polar bear. Who did this? Who decided that a "loonie" would

be a "loon"? We're crazy in Canada. So a "toonie" is worth $2, and it has a polar bear. This

is a picture of a polar bear. Good drawing, Ronnie. Thank you. So "loonie," "toonie" -- $1,

$2.

Now, another word for these coins is "change." So sometimes, people will say, "Do you have

change for $1?" which means they need coins, or they need smaller amounts of money. So

these coins can also be called "change." This is a noun. So we have "25 cents," "10 cents,"

"5 cents," and "1 cent." But we actually have different names -- not slang, everyday names

for these coins. "25 cents," we call "a quarter." Do you know why we call it "a quarter"? I'm

going to do math. Watch out. So $1 has 100 beautiful cents or 100 pennies. A quarter

of 100 -- quarter of 100 -- 25. Ding, ding, ding. A quarter of 100 is 25. So we call 25

cents "a quarter." Good. That makes sense.

Next one, we have "10 cents." I don't know where they got these from. "10 cents" is a

dime. We have an expression, an idiom. Something could stop on a dime. Now, the idea of this

is a dime is very, very thin and small. So if a car can stop on a dime, it means it can

stop really quickly in a short time. I don't understand that either.

The next one we have is "5 cents" or "a nickel." Now, a long time ago, our 5-cent coins were

actually made with nickel. Nickel is a metal. But now, nickel is too expensive. So it's

probably made from a different metal, not nickel. I don't know which one.

And the last one, "the lonely penny." Oh, the 1 cent. Recently, in Canada, we have stopped

making the penny. The penny is no longer. We have no more pennies. If you have a penny,

give it to me. Give me 2 million pennies. I would like you forever. So a penny is 1

cent. You might hear the expression "a penny for your thoughts." That means basically someone

wants to know what you are thinking. So if you're maybe daydreaming, this is a penny

for your thoughts. That means tell me what you're thinking, and I will give you a penny.

No. How about I don't give you a penny, you don't give me a penny, and I don't tell you

what I'm thinking? How about a toonie for my thoughts there? I want to know your thoughts.

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Till then, goodbye.