Scoil: Móin Árd (C.) (uimhir rolla 2012)
- Suíomh:
- An Mhóin Ard, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Múinteoir: Léan, Bean Uí Riain
Tagairt chartlainne
Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0577, Leathanach 224
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- XML Scoil: Móin Árd (C.)
- XML Leathanach 224
- XML “Buying and Selling”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)opportunity arose from the setting up of shops in villages and country districts. Until recently much buying was done after mass on Sundays.
Money was not always used, as people often exchanged such commodities as eggs, butter and potatoes for other articles as tea, sugar and flour.
Many curious expressions were used in buying and selling. The word "boot was used when exchanging or "swapping" one thing, as an animal for another, and meant money given with the inferior article to make up the value of the better one. The word "tick meant getting an article on credit.
Pedlars and tricksters went about formerly, some selling drapery goods and some selling tea Dealers in rags, bones and bottles went about the country collecting these articles and very often did their transaction with children giving a bar of sugarstick in exchange for a few bottles. These dealers are no longer seen about the country.
Some of the coins in use had peculiar names. A sixpence was called a 'tanner' and the shilling a "bob and money in general was called "spondoolicks"
