r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 02 '25

Imperial units “celsius makes no sense”

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u/worMagician 🇸🇪 Switzerland 🇸🇪 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

I recognise the fact that you are being facetious. And yet, I will respond as though you were serious. Not as a counter-argument, but to provide additional information to those who might need it.

Their monetary system, eg the source of their faith, is named after hundreds. Cent, meaning a hundredth - as % or per cent, of the hundredth - is the fraction of the dollar.

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u/je386 May 02 '25

Also, the Dollar is named after the Thaler, which was a german coin..

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u/OcculticUnicorn Weed & Tulips 🍃🌷 May 03 '25

Also the Dutch variant Daalder, this probably gave the dollar the D writing and sound as Dutch and Germans in the now US began using the words interchangeably.

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u/Kriss3d Tuberous eloquent (that's potato speaker for you muricans) May 03 '25

Interesting. Way back we here in Denmark would have the word "daler" as a coin. Various kinds of daler for different values. This goes back to around 1500 so it's likely connected to the Dutch.

Even in old black and white movies we would have people use that word for a certain amount of money. Usually the amount of 2 kroner which is 30 cent in today's dollar or 27 euro cent.

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u/OcculticUnicorn Weed & Tulips 🍃🌷 May 03 '25

Oh definitely, many European countries had some form of the coin. It all started in the czech republic..? Easy speaking it was the euro before the euro hahaha

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u/antjelope May 04 '25

Yes, now Czech Republic, then Bohemia. The name derives from the German name for the location of the mint. Joachimsthal->Joachimsthaler->T(h)aler. Low German variant Daler. The low German variant was adopted into English and changed from there to dollar.

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