Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich (Großbritannien u. Nordirland), Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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British money slang words

The British have lot's of slang words referring to amounts of money:

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Lottery (W3)

Die engl. "Lottery" soll aus dem ndl. "loterij" entstanden sein.

Der dt. "Lotterie" und dem engl. "lottery" liegt das Wort für "lösen" zu Grunde, d.h. "es wird ein (losgelöstes) Teil des Ganzen zugewiesen".

(E2)(L1) http://www.bartleby.com/61/71/L0257100.html
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ETYMOLOGY: French "loterie", probably from Dutch "loterije", from Middle Dutch, from "lot" = "lot".
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(E?)(L?) http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/gang/harlem_gangs/3.html?sect=3D25
Discussion of this form of illegal lottery as played in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. "The game is played by players betting on a series of three numbers. ... A player would win if his/her numbers matched a preset series of three numbers, which were found in daily newspapers as the last three digits of either the NYSE total, U.S. Treasury balance, or total bets at a selected racetrack." From Court TV's Crime Library.

(E?)(L?) http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/roomlott.htm
ROOM LOTTERY

(E?)(L?) http://www.lottery.culture.gov.uk/
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
national lottery grants search

(E?)(L?) http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/bug/
"bug"
n. an illegal lottery; the numbers game. This term appears to be most common in Georgia and Alabama. It often takes the definite article: "the bug." Categories: Georgia. English. Gambling.

(E?)(L?) http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/butter_and_eggs/
"butter and eggs"
n. an illegal lottery in which winning numbers are calculated from closing prices in butter and egg market trading. Categories: English. Crime & Prisons. Food & Drink. Gambling.

(E?)(L?) http://www.dtww.org/index.php/dictionary/pea_shake_house/
"pea-shake house"
n. an illegal lottery-style gambling joint. This term is specific to Indianapolis. The first cite is related only in the mechanics of shaking the peas.

(E1)(L1) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lottery
Hiernach geht "lottery" zurück auf ital. "lotteria".

1567, "arrangement for a distribution of prizes by chance," from It. lotteria, from same root as O.E. hlot (see lot).

(E?)(L?) http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/2/5/1/12513/12513-h/12513-h.htm
In der "Dewey Decimal Classification" haben "Lotteries" die Nummer "175".

(E?)(L?) http://www.hlf.org.uk/
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) enables communities to celebrate, look after and learn more about our diverse heritage. We fund the entire spread of heritage – including buildings, museums, natural heritage and the heritage of cultural traditions and language.

(E?)(L?) http://money.howstuffworks.com/lottery.htm
How Lotteries Work
by Karim Nice
Inside This Article
1. Introduction to How Lotteries Work 2. Payments and Taxes 3. The Lotto Machines 4. Lots More Information 5. See all Games articles

In the United States, 38 states and the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) have lotteries. A lottery is a form of gambling that is run by the state. Most states have several different games, including instant-win scratch-off games, daily games and games where you have to pick three or four numbers.
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(E?)(L?) http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19787
(E?)(L?) http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/
(E?)(L?) http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/risktest/test6.aspx
LooksTooGoodToBeTrue.com This website contains background information and alerts about Internet scams and fraud, covering topics such as identity theft, hacking, phishing, spam, spyware, job scams, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, online auctions, sweepstakes and lotteries, and counterfeit payments. Includes a FAQ, victims' stories, a fraud risk test, and links to places to file a complaint about online fraud. A joint project of federal law enforcement agencies and industry partners.

(E?)(L?) http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21729
(E?)(L?) http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/06/04/06-004.pdf
Gambling in the Golden State: 1998 Forward This 2006 report "provides an overview of gambling in California since 1998, including its social and economic impacts. The report considers each segment of the gambling industry ... Indian casinos, the state lottery, horse racing, card rooms and Internet gambling." Opens directly into a PDF file. From the California Research Bureau (CRB), which "provides nonpartisan research services to the Governor and his staff, to both houses of the legislature, and to other state elected officials."

(E?)(L?) http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22381
(E?)(L?) http://www.dca.ca.gov/r_r/sweep.pdf
What Smart Shoppers Know About Sweepstakes, Contests, and Lotteries
This fact sheet describes California laws relating to sweepstakes (which distribute prizes by chance, such as a lottery) and contests (which require talent and skill to win a prize). Topics include why companies sponsor contests and sweepstakes, chances of winning, legal rules, and where to go for help if you have a problem. Opens directly into a PDF document. From the California Department of Consumer Affairs.

(E2)(L1) http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=e-lottery
e-lottery

(E?)(L?) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/l.htm
(E?)(L?) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09366b.htm
Lottery - A lottery is one of the aleatory contracts and is commonly defined as a distribution of prizes by lot or by chance

(E6)(L1) http://www.onlineconversion.com/lotterynumbers.htm
Lottery Numbers - Want help picking your lottery numbers?

(E?)(L?) http://promo.net/pg/
(E?)(L?) http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a708
(E?)(L?) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1883
(E?)(L?) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1883/1883-h/1883-h.htm#2H_4_0009
Lottery Ticket, The, by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
Sep 1999 [twifexxx.xxx]1883 The Lottery Ticket, by Anton Chekhov

(E?)(L?) http://www.random.org/
(E?)(L?) http://www.random.org/quick-pick/
randomized sequences (without duplicates, like lottery tickets)

(E?)(L?) http://www.snopes.com/luck/dead.asp
Lottery Death: Lottery winner is run over by a truck and killed hours after his win.

(E?)(L?) http://www.snopes.com/luck/lottery.htm
A policeman promised a waitress half the winnings from his "lottery ticket"; all the numbers came up, and he kept his word by sharing the jackpot with her.

(E?)(L?) http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lottery.htm
The winning numbers in a New York state lottery drawing on 11 September 2002 were "9-1-1". (12 September 2002)

(E?)(L?) http://www.sss.gov/WHHAP.HTM
(E?)(L?) http://www.sss.gov/fslottery.htm
Information from the Selective Service System about "what would occur if the United States returned to a draft." Includes a discussion of a draft lottery, classifications, conscientious objection and alternative service, how the draft has changed since Vietnam, and only sons and sole surviving sons.

(E1)(L1) http://willmann.bwl.uni-kiel.de/~gerald/history.pdf
The History of Lotteries
Gerald Willmann
Department of Economics, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6072, U.S.A.
August 3, 1999

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Etymology of the word reveals that at the origin lies the old German word "hleut", versions of which can be found in most Germanic and Romance languages ("lot" in English and French, "Los" in contemporary German, and "lote" in Spanish). It signifies "part of a whole to be distributed". It is not clear which language was the first to take the step from "lot" to "lottery". Leading contenders among etymologists are Italian and Flemish/Dutch, foreshadowing the actual history of lotteries in Europe. The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a "lottery" as a procedure for "distributing something among a group of people by lot or chance". In other words, a "lottery" is an allocation mechanism which assigns anything from property rights to punishments by chance. This is what we will take to be a "lottery" in the broad sense. By contrast, a "lottery" in the narrow sense will be understood to mean what the above cited encyclopaedia describes as a form of gambling in which a usually large number of people purchase chances, called lottery tickets. Apart from the most basic type of lottery in which winners are simply drawn from the pool of tickets sold, there have been two other prominent forms of such games over the past centuries: the "Dutch lottery" or "class lottery" and the "lotto di Génova", both of which will be described below as they appear in the historic context.
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(E1)(L1) http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/lottery.htm
Activate the balls!: The vocabulary of British lotteries

lotteryglossary - Lottery Glossary

Lottery related terms and definitions, comprised largely from contributions by members of an online lotto community.

(E?)(L?) http://www.lotteryglossary.com/
This a repository of lottery related terms and their definitions. The Lottery Glossary is comprised of words, abbreviations and meanings of terminology used by lottery players and lotto number predictionists.

(E?)(L?) http://www.lotteryglossary.com/glossary/index.php


luxury (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://english.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper1/1229/class000100006/hwz189105.htm
MEDITATIONS on luxury
I'm guessing that the etymology of the word "luxury" is derived from "Luxor", given that civilization's grandeur and glory in ancient Egypt. ...

Die "offizielle" Version ist jedoch, dass "Luxus" auf lat. "luxus" = "verrenkt" zurückgeführt wird. Obwohl eine Abweichung (vom Normalen) nicht immer zum Besseren geschehen muss, wird hier wohl eine Verrenkung zum Wohlstand angenommen.

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Nice as ninepence, As nice as ninepence (W3)

Die Redewendung "Nice as ninepence" = "neat", "tidy", "well-ordered" = "ordentlich", "sauber", "wohlgeordnet" bezieht sich nicht auf die Schönheit des irischen Shillings von 1561, sondern ist eine Verballhornung von "Nice as nine-pins". "Nice-Pin" war/ist ein Spiel, in dem Kegel peinlich exakt (altengl. "nicely") in drei Reihen aufgestellt werden (um die Chancengleichheit der Spieler zu gewährleisten).

(E1)(L1) http://www.bartleby.com/81/12061.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/43100.html
In diesem Artikel wird die Herleitung der Redewendung von "nine-pins" in Frage gestellt. Die Redewendung "As fine as fippence, as neat as nine pence." = "Schön wie Fünf Pence, sauber wie Neun Pence" ist im Jahr 1659 dokumentiert. Und des Reimes wegen wurde aus "neat" "nice", so dass der finanzielle Hintergrund doch wahrscheinlich erscheint.

Die Variante "as nice as ninepence" ist erst Ende des 20. Jh. aufgekommen.

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pauahtun
The British Monetary System before Decimalization

(E?)(L?) http://www.pauahtun.org/money.html
die etymologischen Hinweise sind eher etwas dürftig; aber man findet viele Informationen zum englischen Geldsystem

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scot free (W3)

Der engl. Ausdruck "scot free" bedeutet nicht "Freiheit für die Schotten".
Er geht zurück auf ein altes skandinavisches Wort "scot" mit der Bedeutung "Abgeltung", "Bezahlung".
Das frz. "écot" = "Anteil (an der Zeche)" geht ebenfalls darauf zurück. Es tritt auch in der Verbindung "payer son écot" = seinen Beitrag bezahlen" auf.

In mittelalterlichen Städten gab es eine Steuer, die auf die Anzahl der Personen umgelegt wurde. Dies nannte man "scot and lot", abgekürzt "scot". Dabei bedeutete "scot" die "zu bezahlende Summe" und "lot" war der "zugewiesene Anteil".
Derjenige der von den Abgaben befreit wurde, war "scot free" = "steuerfrei.

(E?)(L?) http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sco1.htm
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Scot was also used for a "payment" or "reckoning", especially "one’s share of the cost of an entertainment"; when one settled up, one "paid for one’s scot". Again, "someone who evaded paying their share of the tab" got off "scot free".
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Sterling (W3)

Der englische "Sterling" ist kontinentalen Ursprungs. Die normannische "Sterling-Münze" war so benannt, weil er als Symbol einen kleinen "Stern" trug.

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