764: Ones Two Cents Jan 10 2017

Phrases tend to be a little harder to track down the history of, since they fade in and out of use more often, and while they have many connections to culture, they don't need to have as much history. Still, it is possible to make reasonable estimates for a great many of them based on when and where they started appearing. The phrase, "my two cents" when referring to input or advice most likely started from Poker. In the game, people have to pay a certain amount of money to enter the game, and while now no game would be as little as 2¢, in the 19th century this would have been reasonable for a lower-stakes game.