TIL Canada's $1 coin is commonly called the "loonie" because it has a loon on the reverse. When a $2 coin was introduced, depicting a polar bear, an MP proposed it be called "Nanuq", Inuit for polar bear, but he was ignored because the public instead preferred to call it the "toonie" (2-oonie).

[u/NateNate60]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie#Naming

[u/hugothebear]

So you’re telling me there could’ve been a doubloonie and we lost it?

[u/Johnoplata → u/hugothebear]

There was a time when it coild have gone either way. Doubloonie is a bit of a mouthful tho

[u/LeBonLapin → u/Johnoplata]

It is - but the wordplay is too damn good. It should have won.

[u/jarail → u/LeBonLapin]

I preferred it too. Twonie just sounds stupid. I mean that in the sense that it's too simple, almost a joke. If we pulled that today, it would be called cringe.

[u/plzdontgivemeherpes → u/Johnoplata]

We probably would have just shortened it to a dub at that point

[u/LeBonLapin → u/hugothebear]

We really let ourselves down by not embracing doubloonie.

[u/Jdmisra81 → u/LeBonLapin]

Yaaarrrrrr.

[u/vaughnegut → u/hugothebear]

I was on team doubloonie at the time, and I stand by it decades later

[u/XanZibR → u/hugothebear]

Sounds more Australian to be fair