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Are you contradicting the Founding Fathers?

How many of us call cents "pennies"? Did you know that this is in direct disobedience to the rules layed down by the Founding Fathers?

Here's how the Journal of the Continental Congress of May 13, 1785, reads:

It is not of any importance by what Name our Copper Coin is distinguished, but it should have some Name. They are not to be Pence nor half Pence and though they might be of the same Value we should not have such Words in our Language as applicable to our own Money. The French have their Sous and the Dutch their Doits and Stivers; perhaps from the circumstance of our Coin being numbered by Decimals we might call some Piece of Money a Decad--let it be the largest Copper.

So knock it off, you unconstitutional knaves! From now on we will call cents "decads" in common parlance.
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