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Title: Allowance
Post by: Tante Shvester on July 07, 2008, 08:47:48 PM

We give our kids some pocket money, sometimes just because they are in the family, and sometimes as a reward for doing chores.  It's called an "allowance".  What's up with that?  It seems like an awfully formal, legalistic word for something going on within the family.  Is it a new concept that hasn't gotten its own colloquial term?


I can't think of any other term so formal that we use in a day-to-day, among the family situation.

Title: Allowance
Post by: The Genuine on July 07, 2008, 09:19:34 PM

Oh Tante, estop it.

Title: Allowance
Post by: Tante Shvester on July 07, 2008, 10:06:31 PM

I'll cease, but I will not desist.

Title: Allowance
Post by: Jonathon on July 08, 2008, 08:15:20 PM

*shrug*

It doesn't sound that formal or legalistic to me.  

Title: Allowance
Post by: Tante Shvester on July 08, 2008, 08:38:19 PM

Nevertheless.