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Because the one dollar coin is a loonie for the bird . It's not a onie. I remember thinking that loonie was a stupid name when they came out. Or should I say stoopid? And even worse was the toonie and I remember it being spelled that way all along, until I saw otherwise on this forum. |
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Nice one!  |
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I am sure though, that with the 'Loonie', there was some tongue-in-cheek linkage to Brian Mulroney, our prime minister at the time. There is some interesting exonumia out there, based upon this premise.  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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I like "twoonie" myself. Now for the harder question: what to call the future $5 circulation coin?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Fivoon?
Time to drop the -ie. I never liked the name loonie much, it sounds too much like "looney" (lunatic).
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Well, I see a number of people agree with the logic of using twonie with the exception of the Mint. SluExe97 said it best! They don't know how to spell. I learned the difference between two and too when I was in grade two. They must have skipped that grade. Thanks for everyone's input. I was trying to decide whether or not I should change the spelling on all the 2 X 2's but even though I made up all the TOONIE tags last night, I'm still not sure I want to be bothered. I guess if twonie is acceptable I'll leave them that way!
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Fivoon?
Time to drop the -ie. I never liked the name loonie much, it sounds too much like "looney" (lunatic). Ooooo  to build to that, how about "Cinqoon" -- also accommodates francophone interests. Otherwise, we'd have to see what design goes on the reverse to add more relevant commentary |
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Toonie vs. Twonie? Bearie!
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Sounds good skip! Might be a bit hard to pronounce the "cinq" part though for non-speakers of French.
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Canada
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for the five how bout finney? a five was called a finn at one time which I've heard once in a while. but I think when it comes time to ditch the five dollar bill,(either that or the nickle), canada will put in place the technology they are already talking about which is to use cell phones for "micro" transactions. I imagine they ll just throw the 5 in there too since it already doesn't have much buying power. seems to me that it would be a pain though if youre using cash, to also have to pull out your phone for amounts owing or change that is under $5.
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I always thought "toonie" was stupid, and when I needed to spell it I spelled it "twoonie". Back when the options were presented for what to call the new $2 coin, "doubloon" was the one I thought was clever.
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Back when the options were presented for what to call the new $2 coin, "doubloon" was the one I thought was clever. Now that is clever. |
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Canada
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The new future $5 coin will be called the finskie.  |
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United States
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Put Michael Bublé on it and call it the Croonie. |
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Canada
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I remember calling a five a fin. We would flip for fins, where the guys would throw their fives in the pot and flip coins for a winner.  So a 25¢ piece is two bits. $5 would be 40 bits Using a Newfoundland accent, the $5 coin can be a.... FartySo instead of asking someone to "slip me a fin", we could say "flip me a farty b'y"  |
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