Monday 9 July 2018

Dollars

Who wouldn't like to have lots of them?  Did you know that the word Dollar came from the German word 'Thaler', which is an abbreviation of the word 'Joachimsthaler', which is because the metal for the coin came from a town called Jachymov, currently in the Czech Republic!
called The study of the history or the origin of words is called Etymology.

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