Whatever happened to… (the cent symbol)?
Posted on March 31, 2011 by bob in April 2010
by Tim Lennox
I am surely showing my age by even remembering there was such a thing. I’ll bet you will have to look at an electric typewriter, or perhaps even a manual, to find what I always thought of as a valuable key.
We kept the $ sign….why did we discard the…well, you know, the “c” with the slash through it? Might it reside inside the computer keyboard’s “special character” file? Why, there’s one of these h in there, whatever it is. And one of these z too! If I want to copyright this piece, there’s a © in there for that purpose. And for my Greek editors, there this: p (though I haven’t a clue how or where to use it!)
Maybe the cent sign is hidden in that chart with tiny letters that my old eyes don’t read as well as they should. Or maybe a cent is worth so little now that no one needs a sign for it. It won’t buy anything, and mostly they just fill up old mason jars.
And speaking of whatever happened to….
