"Cent" Versus "Penny" - My Rant

Really? Show me one where they put "penny" on it. All you've shown is that some factory workers are as illiterate as some bankers. My brother calls his cat "mutt", but that doesn't make it a dog.

coin dexter ( basically, a left handed coin).
I can't understand your thread, what's the designer or weight got to do with it?
regards,

There are way too many pages in this thing.
I just read the original post and scanned the first
few comments... So if I am on the millionth page now,
sounding like an idiot, then so be it.

I don't know where the terms penny and nickel came from...
All I know is that my 80-something Grandparents call the
coins these names, and always have. So wherever the terms
came from, it was even before them.

That said, just like the term Indian was slang
(or misnomer at best) in the 17th century,
it is accepted and understood to mean something
today. That is good enough.

There comes a point where you just know what a word
means, accept it, and leave it at that. A penny is
what it is, where you are located. Where I am, it
always has, and always will, refer to a U.S. cent coin.
It doesn't refer to the denomination, it refers to the
coin itself. You wouldn't call a nickel "a 5 penny coin".
Just the same, you wouldn't call a dime something like
a "double nickel" or "2 nickel piece".

Live with it...

Edit:
I just thought of something that made me snicker...
What if the same people that dump on the term "penny" being
used in the U.S. were in the 18th-19th centuries?
Would someone shout out in alarm "Look out, Indians!",
in order to warn folks of hostile Native Americans
about to attack... Then that anal retentive person stop to
correct them, rather than ducking for cover...

Natural selection would have truncated this argument!

I resemble this remark !

and thats my 2 cents worth !

Native americans ,,you know I work on a reservation and they resent being called Native americans ,they prefer the use of the term indian which more truely reflects their view of themselves historically than does any implication of american ancestory .

Like I said in the opening the terms can be confusing on a coin forum since they actually can refer to two entirely different coins and countries of use , in the restaurant or truck stop its no big deal .

I know next to nothing about Pennies , but I have many years of experiance with Cents , one I can answer questions about the other I can only read the answers given from the people who know about them .

Come on Fred, do you really think anyone could mistake a box of "pennies" for anything other than what it is? In My Humble Opinion, that is.

Great example, clarifying what I said (way back on page one) that the context in which either term is used is important.

The main problem is our country is large and people all over say things differently. Saying FEW PEOPLE is only based on where you live. Where I live and grew up everyone says five pennies, ten pennies, etc. Cents is seldom used for anything when discussing pennies. Way to may people base their lives on the Wikipedia as if it was the bible. In some areas slang, so called English, is prodominate and even difficult for others to understand. Individuals with harsh Southern expressions also are difficult for many Northeners to understand.
The usage of words such as Pennies, Quarters, Nickels, Five Bucks, a Ten spot, Fin, Saw buck, Two Bits and on and on and on are in some areas as common as Hello. All depends on where you live.
AIN'T NO WRONG WAY IN THE USA.