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Originally Posted by Difflugia
My guess is that it's peculiar to the US because one cent has always been .01 dollar. Since $.99 and 99¢ are equivalent and both are seen interchangeably on signs in shops, it's easy for Americans to get confused and add the extra decimal point if we're not thinking about it carefully. I've even seen professionally prepared sales flyers that make the mistake.
The English never got in the habit of writing £.99 instead of 99p because until relatively recently, 99 pence wasn't £.99, it was 8s 3d.
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Actually, it was an I didn't think it through.. so sorry I will self punish ..bad boy, bad boy you are banned from posting for two days .. bad bad!
