Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Why Is The Dollar Sign A Letter S?

Why Is The Dollar Sign A Letter S?


The letter S appears nowhere in the word "dollar", yet an S with a line through it ($) is unmistakably the dollar sign. But why an S? Why isn't the dollar sign something like a Đ (like the former South Vietnamese đồng, or the totally-not-a-joke-currency Dogecoin)?

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