skirtyscot wrote:But Daryl, here a purse is what a woman keeps her money in. Her bag is her handbag, or her shoulder bag, or just... her bag!
In the US, both men and women keep their paper money, credit cards, and ID cards in a
wallet. Men usually keep their wallets in a rear pants pocket; women keep them in a purse of which there are various types: handbags, shoulder bags, cross-body bags, satchels, and so forth.
Men's wallets usually fold paper money in half so the wallet fits in a pants pocket. Women's wallets usually keep the paper money flat. But they're both sometimes called billfolds.
It's considered effeminate for a man to carry a purse so those that do usually call it a bag. These are often sized to carry a laptop or tablet PC so there's an excuse for carrying them. Some are called messenger bags, as if the purpose is to carry orders or whatever from the general or whoever to the front or whatever. Messenger bags are usually cross-body so you don't drop them from your galloping warhorse.
Not many people carry coin purses anymore, but they're always called just that: coin
purses.
In fact, use of coins is phasing out. Most people pay with plastic or EFT, and if they do pay in cash and get coins back, they toss them in a jar when they come home, and then when the jar gets full, they dump the coins in a machine in a grocery store that counts them, subtracts a fee, and gives them a receipt they can spend at the checkout counter. Or they can avoid the fee by taking the money as an Amazon gift certificate.
Most banks no longer accept large numbers of coins, even for deposit. They make you roll them up in standard-sized paper tubes that they check by weighing.
Such, apparently, is the nature of advanced society.
Courage, conviction, nerve, verve, dash, panache, guts, nuts, balls, gall, élan, stones, whatever. Get some and get skirted.
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