You think THAT'S bad? We used to have a coin called a "half dime." You had to know a dime value, then do math @arthur_affect @Wombat_Soup
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yeah it's an old fashioned word for "tenth"
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@Wombat_Soup Jesus. Even when Americans do use the metric system they make it as hard as possible. -
we were at the time super progressive bc of our "decimalized" currency
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@Wombat_Soup The term "Dime" is from French dîme which means 1/10th. So it was perfectly metric, as t were.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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