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:My riches a’s my penny-fee, ::And I maun guide it canny, O. :( Burns , ''My Nannie, O'') The older Scottish Gaelic word for ''penny'' was ''peighinn''. The modern form is ''sgillinn'', literally ''shilling'', which reflects the fact that at the Union with England in 1707, the exchange rate was fixed at twelve Pounds Scots to one Pound Sterling so one shilling Scots exchanged for one English Penny . SEE ALSO REFERENCE
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