The decimal currency in the UK is essentially the same age as me - and I have never heard this claim that an interpunct is somehow more official. So the claim s

The decimal currency in the UK is essentially the same age as me - and I have never heard this claim that an interpunct is somehow more official. So the claim stood out to me as being outlandish; not impossible, just super unlikely. To show I have no ill will toward outlandish Britishisms, this one applied in Parliament until relatively recently... "To increase their appearance during debates and to be seen more easily, a Member wishing to raise a point of order during a division was, until 1998, required to speak with his hat on. Collapsible top hats were kept for the purpose." https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-information-office/g07.pdf https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-inf...