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pound Scots

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Origin of pound Scots1

First recorded in 1605–15

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Example Sentences

But we must bear in mind that a "pound Scots" was not at all the same thing as an English pound at that date.

"I'd gie a pound Scots to ken wha chaps," said Mungo, deaf to every humour.

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