XPost: alt.unix.geeks   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 04/01/2026 00:51, c186282 wrote:   
   > Dunno, "doll-ARh" sounds Arabic to me ... and Euros   
   >    had long experience with those cultures by the   
   >    1700s.   
   >   
   It's not a question of how it sounds to you.   
   It is a matter of fact.   
      
      
   >    I'll poke around and see if there's a sounds-alike   
   >    going back further than Germany, crusader times.   
      
   No, there isn't.   
      
   It's a corruption of ' Thaler', itself an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler   
      
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