On Friday 05 September 2008 09:45:32 Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM:
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-). Those machines didn't have a '£' sign.
Anne