![]() ![]() Penny for your Thoughts is also the title of a song written in the late 1800’s by Stephen Foster, known as the ‘Father of American Music. There are also other English expressions which use the word penny to refer to thoughts. Similar expressions to ‘penny for your thoughts’ have existed such as pennyworth of wit ( penn’orth of wit). At one time, the word was commonly used as a synonym for ‘coin.’ This gave rise to many expressions, such as “a pretty penny,” which would refer to a great sum of money, as opposed to an attractive penny. Although the British pound was not divided into 100 equal parts like our American dollar, its smallest unit was called a penny, which is where we got our word for 1/100th of a dollar. This was a monetary unit of currency having two denominations, the greater at one-fifth of a shilling, and the less, as one-twelfth of a shilling. The word penny itself dates back many hundreds of years, coming from the Anglo-Saxon word pening or penig. This gentle prodding knocks Sam out of his reverie and he says with an apologetic smile “Oh, I’m just distracted by this big deadline at work. ![]() He’s not quite being his jovial self, Sara doesn’t want to make a big deal out of it, so she says, “A penny for your thoughts.” Sara is telling Sam about what happened with her sister, but Sam seems lost in his own thoughts, hardly paying attention. Examples Of UseĪ couple, Sam and Sara, are out for dinner in their favorite restaurant. When you say ‘a penny for your thoughts,’ you probably don’t have these rare 1909 Lincoln wheat pennies in mind, which can be worth hundreds of dollars. Interestingly, A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS ends up not only being about the power of the supernatural, but also about the power of personal relationships or the grievous nature when relationships fail or are tragically endeda dimension which adds potency to the best of horror tales. Illustrated scenes and archival footage of 1970s pop-culture animate Arthur Bremers diary entry planning the assassination of. Poetics: Resolving to Resolve dversepoets.It means simply “what are you thinking,” and we are not actually offering any monetary compensation in exchange for another person’s thoughts. ![]() Quadrille #169: A Star (Poem) is Born /6/qua… 4 days ago MTB: Patchworking some Prose /9/mtb… 1 day ago
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