basic unit of UK currency

[upendran]

what is the basic unit of UK currency ? pound, punt, shilling

[incitatus]

the pound

[Waterwolf]

The punt is the currency of the Irish Republic, and a shilling was pre-decimal currency -- 12 old pennies, equivalent to 5p nowadays.

[good2skull]

Although now the unit of currency in Ireland is not the Punt, alas, but the Euro. When I was very young, 5 I think, I unfortunately made the mistake through not listening properly to my parents no doubt, of believing that the first letter in the name of the previous unit of Irish currency was "c"and so I used the word as such. A friendly shopkeeper in Donegal put me right. I didnt know what the other word meant at the time either.

[allen ives]

Couple of points.

One, punt isn't pronounced to rhyme with that word, is rhymes with 'shouldn't', and could be written pnt.

Two, why can't answerbank put in a stupid question filter, in the same way as they've got an offensive language filter.