In a Word: The First Dollar | The Saturday Evening Post
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To break from the British pound sterling, America chose a word with Bohemian roots.
  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    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.