Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Help: cigar size?

...Through the smoke of a 25S. cigar...
Is this the cigar size? In this case, what does that "S." stand for? Or 
does it come from a box with 25 cigars in it?
Grazie!
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Ciao,
Anna

 does it come from a box with 25 cigars in it?
http://www.smoke.co.uk/Cigars/bolivar.htm
-- 
Mary

 
http://www.caffeminotti.com/cigar/sigari3.html
-- 
Mary

 
http://www.caffeminotti.com/cigar/sigari3.html
Oppure contattare l' Orrido Frenc Ruscalla e chieder lumi.
P.
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Ardisco non ordisco

 
http://www.caffeminotti.com/cigar/sigari3.html
Mary, scusa la capa tosta, ma non sono ancora sicura di aver capito. Ho 
trovato "pkg 25's" e pkg sta per package, giusto? Una confezione da 25, 
quindi?
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Ciao,
Anna

 
Sì, scusa, andavo di corsa, e ho mandato quello che mi sembrava una
tabella di misure, solo che 25s non è una misura.
Dopo aver controllato meglio, sembra che significhi "25 singles", cioè
una confezione da 25.
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Mary

 una confezione da 25.
Perfetto, ti ringrazio con la faccia sotto i tuoi piedi. E puoi anche 
muoverti! :-D
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Ciao,
Anna

 una confezione da 25.
I see it differently. Anna's quotation quite obviously refers to a single
cigar, not "through the smoke of a box of 25 cigars".
Anna does not tell us to what period and what country the quotation refers,
but I suspect it is Great Britain before the decimalisation of the currency.
Therefore, if we accept that "25S" is a typing error for "25s", then the
reference would be to a cigar costing 25 shilling.
I wonder if this is the case.
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Xakero

 I wonder if this is the case.
You may well be right; I must have overlooked the original sentence.
25 shillings was commonly written 25/-, but I think 25s would also have
been possible.
Decimal currency arrived in about 1970, so if the story's set before
that, it could well be referring to the price.
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Mary

 that, it could well be referring to the price.
It was unusual to give a price as "25 shilling", but used as an adjective it
fits quite well: a 25-shilling cigar. Quite an expensive cigar, that must
have been!
It seems so recent yet it is more than 30 years since the change from the
pound/shilling/pence system to the decimal pound. I am trying hard to
remember how prices were written in the market in the old time, and I
believe the "shorthand" was indeed, for  example, 7/- for an item costing 7
shilling, or 7/6 for 7 shilling and 6 pence. The more formal way was to
write 7s and 7s 6d, which brings me to the question how prices over one
pound were labelled. I think it was something like £4 7s 6d. It is most
embarrassing that I should have forgotten, after all I wrote lots of price
offers, or rather I dictated and later signed them.
Old Brits (detribalised or not), help, please!
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Xakero
PS: Race horses and gentlemen's suits were, of course, quoted in guineas.
PPS: Is it true there are 2-pound coins now in circulation? (I remember the
advent of the 1-pound coin, by some disparagingly called Maggie button, and
Scotland's initial opposition to it by continuing to print 1-pound notes)

 have been!
The... "smoker" is just daydreaming, having a vision of himself in an 
unlikely golden future. That's the cigar of his dreams :-)
Thanx
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Ciao,
Anna

 Oppure contattare l' Orrido Frenc Ruscalla e chieder lumi.
Acch, Why didn't we think of that! Of course!
Dear  Knight In Rusty Armour, You are summoned to the Real !Come out, come
out wherever you are.
And of course our thanks to ChiC-iSm for reminding us, with such tact, that
this was indeed a most appropriate course of action.
I remain, as always, etc., ecc.,
Bambi
dtb

 I remain, as always, etc., ecc.,
I did think of good old KIRA, too, but as a non-smoker I wondered if a pipe
smoker also smokes cigars or rather looks down on those lowly cigar smokers.
Anybody can smoke a cigar but a pipe, now, that's something else!
Let's hear from you, Frank! If GoogleGroups can be trusted, you have been in
hiding since 25 May 2002.
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Xakero

 dtb
Ti abbraccio bollyssimamente
Frank

 been in hiding since 25 May 2002.
Ti ringrazio di cuore dell'invito. Come ho spiegato a Bambi, il tempo da 
poter dedicare alla vita virtuale è ormai a quota zero. Continuo a lurkare 
per la passione per la lingua inglese (anche se, per quanto riguarda la mia 
competenza, sto ormai perdendo i pezzi per strada) e per la simpatia che 
nutro nei confronti dei partecipanti.
Non è escluso che ci si possa comunque re-incontrare a un prossimo raduno.
Un abbraccio a tutti
Frank-KIRA

 Frank
Dearest KISA
How wondrous to read you. Like thee, I have been somewhat absent of late,
but watchful, ever watchful of the goings-on at Court. With satisfaction, I
hasten to add.From that which I can gather, the venerable Chic-iSm has been
well-behaved so your may allay your fears on that count. Though for a moment
I did think it knavish of you, our most respected subject, to be calling the
good fellow a knave, what - if any misgivings one might have had, melted
away in much of laughter as one read, with deep satisfaction your closing
line.
Even if one holds you in deepest affection, you knave, you, ...
Bollyssimamente indeed, dear Frank,
I remain as always,
Bambi
dtb

 poter dedicare alla vita virtuale è ormai a quota zero.
It is good to have a sign of live from you, and to know that you keep
reading this ng.
Whatever it is that keeps you so busy, please don't overwork yourself and
stay in good health!
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Xakero