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...likely to assume that this is Pynchon's playful back-formation from "Pitch-Penny," but the dictionary makes it clear that the etymology runs the other way.

27 KB (4,582 words) - 19:52, 22 December 2006
Chapter 19: 190-198

...ed, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore.

9 KB (1,518 words) - 19:47, 16 February 2016
Chapter 69: 665-677

Latin: Fate turns upon a penny

10 KB (1,522 words) - 03:17, 12 July 2011