I made a list of words that are used in Spanish to describe US coins. Most accurate and some slang, (in parenthesis) I asked my Puerto Rican family what they would call each coin and I found some of the responses interesting 1C - Un Centavo, Un Penny (slang), Un Chavo (slang) 5C - Cinco Centavos, Un Niquel (slang), Un Vellon (slang), Una Ficha (slang) 10C - Diez Centavos, Diez Chavos (slang) you can't say Dime because that means tell me in Spanish but not pronounced Dime 25C - Veinte Cinco Centavos, Una Peseta - most likely from Spain 50C - Cincuenta Centavos, Medio Peso $1.oo - Un Dolar, Un Peso (slang) Here is a similar infographic on Puerto Rican words for money - I want to share thie webpage with you - http://www.speakinglatino.com/puerto-rican-spanish-words-for-us-currency/
¡Muy interesante! That's strange about "dime" since the pronunciation is very different from "tell me" in Spanish. "Dime" in Spanish sounds closer to "dee-may," which would be hard to confuse with "dime" or "dye-muh." I can definitely see confusion in writing, though, but the context should make the distinction pretty clear. "Peseta" for quarter is also interesting. That was the pre-Euro Spanish monetary unit. I'm not sure how it relates to "quarter" or "25 cents," but I've definitely heard stranger things. The Urban Dictionary (which I won't link to here for obvious reasons) does list "Peseta" as "Another name for a U.S. Quarter." Hm.
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You can display additional characters from romance and other languages using the alt key and a combination of numbers on any standard US keyboard. But you must use the keypad, usually off to the right, not the numbers on the top row of the keyboard. To produce "ñ" hold down alt and press 0, 2, 4, 1 on the keypad. Other character codes, including ç, ß, ¿, ¡, ¢, £, €, are available here: http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html
For Spanish, I just go here........http://spanish.typeit.org/....... type my message there using the available punctuation........'copy'........'paste' here.
I find Alt-0162 useful to add my 2¢ worth as ewomack indicates above, Microsoft Windows "charmap" provides the keystroke values also.
