Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL the word dollar came from a combination of Jesus' grandfathers name and the German word for valley.www.saturdayeveningpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down14
arrow-up150arrow-down1external-linkTIL the word dollar came from a combination of Jesus' grandfathers name and the German word for valley.www.saturdayeveningpost.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·1 month agoSo the dollar goes back to a German expression and Marxism also originated in Germany. How ironic that the country was forcefully split with both systems competing against each other. History really does rhyme quite often.
So the dollar goes back to a German expression and Marxism also originated in Germany. How ironic that the country was forcefully split with both systems competing against each other. History really does rhyme quite often.