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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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rij
noun,
currency
one pound
20; historical
.
etymology:
pre-decimalisation (1971) a pound banknote worth twenty shillings; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; this is perhaps from Romany
reesh
a pound