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Dead_Parrot

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Thu Mar-30-06 05:46 PM
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6. Beats me

Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 06:21 PM by Dead_Parrot

:shrug: I'll have to dig out my copy of Brewster's Phrase & Fable from the garage...

Edit: The Guardian to the rescue...

Either:

...Gaelic-speaking Irishmen in the British Army would refer to "my money" as "mo chuid": "cuid"(pronounced, very roughly, "quid")...

Or

...Perhaps as in quid pro quo. Just as notes offer the statement "promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum" thereby indicating that they are not really worth anything except that they may be "cashed" in...

Both seem plausible. :)

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