Editing Shilling (section)

===Abbreviation and slang===
[[File:Alice par John Tenniel 38.png|thumb|upright 0.5|The price tag on the [[The Hatter|Hatter's]] hat reads '10/6']]
One abbreviation for shilling is '''s''' (for {{lang|la|[[Solidus (coin)|solidus]]}}, see [[£sd]]). Often it was expressed by a [[solidus (punctuation)|solidus symbol]] ({{char|/}}) (which may have begun as a substitute for {{nobr|{{char|ſ}} ('[[long s]]')}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englishproject.org/may-and-slash|title=May and the Slash - English Project|website=www.englishproject.org|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022032353/http://www.englishproject.org/may-and-slash|archive-date=22 October 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>) thus '1/9' means "one shilling and ninepence". A price expressed as a number of shillings with no additional [[Penny (British pre-decimal coin)|pence]] was often written as the number, a solidus and a dash: thus for example ten shillings was written '10/-'. Two shillings and sixpence (half a crown, or an eighth of a £) was written as '2/6', rarely as '2s{{nbsp}}6d' ('d' being the abbreviation for {{lang|la|[[denarius]]}}, a penny). The shilling itself was equal to twelve pence. In the traditional [[£sd|pounds, shillings and pence]] system, there were 20 shillings per pound and 12 pence per shilling, making 240 pence in a pound.

Slang terms for the old shilling coins include "bob" and "hog". While the derivation of "bob" is uncertain, [[John Camden Hotten]] in his 1864 ''Slang Dictionary'' says the original version was "bobstick" and speculates that it may be connected with [[Sir Robert Walpole]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Slang Dictionary|date=1864|author=John Camden Hotten}}</ref>