[iloveedward]

I want to go to a hotel in London and it says it is 42 dollars with that england sign or something. How much would that be in American money??

[ckm1956]

$77.86

[robbieb]

right now its 77.85 cents but the american dollar is getting weaker so it will probably be about 80 in a month

[BK]

We don't have dollars. That little £ sign means pounds, as in Pounds Sterling or GBP (United Kingdom Pounds) which is our unit of currency. It's actually an L sign with a stroke through it. It doesn't stand for England but is from "Librum" which means pound (as in weight) in Latin. You have dollars and cents, we have pounds and pence. The signs are £=pounds and p=pence. There are 100 pence in 1 pound. Sometimes we pronounce the p for pence as pee - I know that is funny!
So if someone says it costs five pounds two pee, you will know what they mean.
Some other weird words are used in the UK for particular coins or notes. A fiver=£5, a tenner=£10, two bob = 20p, one bob=10p, a shilling=5p, a penny=1p

£42 = $77.75