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by **RichardB** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:09 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:I could never get my tongue round saying "mils" - it's so not a Greek word. So nasal.

Oh you. Little liar!.... You always managed ok.

Remember Pafos?

Love Mills x :cr

by **Oceanside50** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:33 pm

shmuel16 wrote:

Which one is the chifte?

by **Get Real!** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:49 pm

Oceanside50 wrote:Which one is the chifte?

Top row - middle coin = 1 grossi or 5 mills

Bot row - 1st coin = 2 selinia or 100 mills or chiftes

Bot row - 2nd coin = 1 selini or 50 mills

Bot row - 3rd coin = Miso selini or 25 mills

by **Oceanside50** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:54 pm

Get Real! wrote:
Oceanside50 wrote:Which one is the chifte?

Top row - middle coin = 1 grossi or 5 mills

Bot row - 1st coin = 2 selinia or 100 mills or chiftes

Bot row - 2nd coin = 1 selini or 50 mills

Bot row - 3rd coin = Miso selini or 25 mills

Giasou re GR

by **Get Real!** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:58 pm

Oceanside50 wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
Oceanside50 wrote:Which one is the chifte?

Top row - middle coin = 1 grossi or 5 mills

Bot row - 1st coin = 2 selinia or 100 mills or chiftes

Bot row - 2nd coin = 1 selini or 50 mills

Bot row - 3rd coin = Miso selini or 25 mills

Giasou re GR

To this day I call the €2 coin a chiftes! :lol:

As in…
“Fere re genaka kanenan chifte na biamen tsiara…”

by **miltiades** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:08 pm

Haven't heard this word " chifte" for more than 50 years !!! A bit like the English half a crown, " two and a kick" .
The first job I had in Cyprus way back in 1958 as a " mikros" in Kotchios kafenio Limassol paid a Chifte a day !!! Ten bob a week :lol:

"Dhkio mona" was also used for two shillings !

by **GreekIslandGirl** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:42 pm

Get Real! wrote:
Oceanside50 wrote:Which one is the chifte?

Top row - middle coin = 1 grossi or 5 mills

Bot row - 1st coin = 2 selinia or 100 mills or chiftes

Bot row - 2nd coin = 1 selini or 50 mills

Bot row - 3rd coin = Miso selini or 25 mills

OK, smarty pants! But it's not 'mills'. It's 'mils'

by **GreekIslandGirl** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:47 pm

RichardB wrote:
GreekIslandGirl wrote:I could never get my tongue round saying "mils" - it's so not a Greek word. So nasal.

Oh you. Little liar!.... You always managed ok.

Remember Pafos?

Love Mills x :cr

I can never forget Pafos/Paphos/Pathos.

Anyway, I can say "Mills"; I just can't say "mils". Not enough "llllll"s if you know what I mean.

P.S. I don't remember ever meeting a "Mills" and the only one I 'know' is Mills Chapman - where is he btw? He had that ongoing Cyprus solution proposal.

by **Lordo** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:13 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:
RichardB wrote:
GreekIslandGirl wrote:I could never get my tongue round saying "mils" - it's so not a Greek word. So nasal.

Oh you. Little liar!.... You always managed ok.

Remember Pafos?

Love Mills x :cr

I can never forget Pafos/Paphos/Pathos.

Anyway, I can say "Mills"; I just can't say "mils". Not enough "llllll"s if you know what I mean.

P.S. I don't remember ever meeting a "Mills" and the only one I 'know' is Mills Chapman - where is he btw? He had that ongoing Cyprus solution proposal.

you seem to not have realised that the word chiftes is a terggish word you bastardised from chifte. why do you always add an s to the end of a terggish word like dolama-thes. create your own bloody language

by **Get Real!** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:44 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
Oceanside50 wrote:Which one is the chifte?

Top row - middle coin = 1 grossi or 5 mills

Bot row - 1st coin = 2 selinia or 100 mills or chiftes

Bot row - 2nd coin = 1 selini or 50 mills

Bot row - 3rd coin = Miso selini or 25 mills

OK, smarty pants! But it's not 'mills'. It's 'mils'