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I was questioned earlier today as to why I use the word "twonie" instead of toonie. I explained that it doesn't make sense to me to use too(nie) since the definition of too is also whereas the coin being a two dollar coin should be called a two(nie) in print. It is a two dollar coin not a too dollar coin yet my pc says I'm spelling it wrong and earlier Wikipedia corrected me and gave me the information for a toonie. How did it ever get to be too instead of two?
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Oh... if only t_y was still here... he has always insisted that the $2 coins is called a "Twoonie"
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Someone at the RCM didn't know how to spell two...  |
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Forum Kid
Canada
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i think it works either way... I might start calling it the Twoonie or Twonie. or maybe my picture of the clipped toonie cliptwonie?
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United States
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Because the one dollar coin is a loonie for the bird . It's not a onie.
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Canada
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then it should be a bearie, or a polie
Edited by wazzappenning
12/04/2014 11:35 pm
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Barely - barely worth two dollars.
Toonie rhymes with and spelled like Loonie,
nothing special here. From Wikipedia -
"Toonie" is a portmanteau word combining the number "two" with the name of the loonie, Canada's one-dollar coin. It is occasionally spelled "twonie" or "twoonie", but Canadian newspapers and the Royal Canadian Mint use the "toonie" spelling.
When the coin was introduced, a number of nicknames were suggested. Some of the early ones included the bearie (analogous to the Loonie and its loon), the bearly, the deuce, the doubloonie (a play on "double loonie" and the former Spanish doubloon coin), and the moonie (because it depicted "the Queen with a bear behind").[9]
Jack Iyerak Anawak, Member of Parliament from Nunatsiaq, Nunavut, suggested the name Nanuq [nanook, polar bear] in honour of Canada's Inuit people and their northern culture; however, this culturally meaningful proposal went largely unnoticed beside the popular "toonie".[10][11]
The name "toonie" became so widely accepted that in 2006 the Royal Canadian Mint secured the rights to it. A competition to name the bear resulted in the name "Churchill", a reference both to Winston Churchill and to the common polar bear sightings in Churchill, Manitoba.[12]
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Great information SilverDon.
It pretty much ended being a "me too" type of thing since the Loonie was already accepted as name for the one dollar coin for the previous 8 years. It would be called something completely different if the original dies for the 1987 small dollar hadn't been lost...
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To me and ....one other true and great tWoonie expert,..I will always use this term for it and nothing else.. A tWoonie is a tWoonie is a tWoonie..case closed..  |
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For what it is worth, this is what I have in my spreadsheet for my foreign coins... Quote:
1989 Canada 1d (Loonie)
1996 Canada 2d (Twonie) The Twonie came from my ex-girlfriend from the late '90s (a Toronto native, she still lives there). She also told me how to spell it.  |
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Twonie makes more sense to me....descriptive of what it is. Toonie brings up images of carTOONS in my mind (makes me think of Dudley Doright).....just a yanks thoughts....please disregard.....
Edited by amida17
12/05/2014 10:56 am
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It's all Looney Tunes to me too.
Edited by SilverDon
12/05/2014 12:27 pm
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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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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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