My Dutch friend, Gerard, commented earlier on “whiskey pounds”. When I got to the UK, I had two ten-pound notes left over from a previous trip. They were kind of odd-looking, and when I tried to spend them in London, they did not know what they were and refused them. But here, in Scotland, the bills all look like that. Had I studied the notes more carefully, I should have known. They carry a portrait of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, and they are definitely legal tender!
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