tuppence-worth love

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  • noun Alternative spelling of tuppence worth.

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  • And then there's the way Wikipedia works day to day, with millions of unpaid contributors adding their tuppence-worth of knowledge to the site, or improving or disproving or contradicting or expanding someone else's tuppence-worth, mostly in the belief that it is worth doing so for itself alone.

    The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales 2011

  • Add the vagueness that comes from (albeit excellent) translation, and the fact that the translation would occasionally cut off for a second because my mic seemed to be interfering with my headphones, and I sort of didn't want to be throwing in my tuppence-worth based on miscomprehension of the points being made by others.

    Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009

  • Add the vagueness that comes from (albeit excellent) translation, and the fact that the translation would occasionally cut off for a second because my mic seemed to be interfering with my headphones, and I sort of didn't want to be throwing in my tuppence-worth based on miscomprehension of the points being made by others.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I realise this is three days late, but thought I have to give my tuppence-worth.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Best email in a while 2008

  • Have added my tuppence-worth by raising the issue on my own blog at Nature Network:

    The Simon Singh Support Meeting Jack of Kent 2009

  • Whether anyone'll read this at this late date, I don't know but as a resident of of of the wards of the constituency I put in my tuppence-worth!

    John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008

  • Anyway, this is the tuppence-worth I'm chucking in.

    Bosses, Blogging and Bastardstones Hal Duncan 2005

  • For my tuppence-worth I think the abortion scenario is linked to other societal matters like more and more UK citizens drinking themselves to death, and commercial TV channels that now seem to be morally devoid zones of endless wall-to-wall gambling after late evening, honours sleeze etc., etc.

    Abortion Figures Shame This Country 2007

  • Anyway, this is the tuppence-worth I'm chucking in.

    Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • I wasn't going to put in my tuppence-worth, partly because the real deep thinkers of science fiction would probably beat up on me and partly because a lot of what I might have said has been said already.

    November 10th, 2006 2006

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