HOW TO PRONOUNCE
pence
/pɛns/
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What does pence mean?
noun
- plural of penny (the subunit of the pound sterling or Irish pound).
proper noun
- A surname.
- Used specifically of Mike Pence
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IPA pronunciation
/pɛns/
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If such be the real name the legend about the mint falls to the ground, Cernioge having nothing to do with pence.
When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling.
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He played on with spirit, and in half an hour had earned in pence what was a small fortune to a destitute man.
His apprenticeship over, Telford went on working as a journeyman at Langholm, his wages at the time being only eighteen pence a day.
If you tie it with string, and mark it MS. for printing, it will not cost, I should think, more than 4 pence.