It occurred to me after I put the previous post up that the idea of 'putting your two cents in' might be one of those informal Americanisms or regionalisms that people elsewhere might not understand. So I went to The Penguin English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (ISBN: 014051533X), which covers English around the globe and is careful to mark regionalisms as such.
I haven't found that particular phrase in it. But now I do know that there's an equivalent phrase. I quote:
* add/put in one's twopenn'orth informal to have one's say; to make one's contribution to a discussion, etc. [contraction of twopenny worth]
Hmmm. So did the Brits get their saying from us, or did we get our saying from them, I wonder?
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