American things
Why do they use miles and pennies?
shareUK uses miles and penny's also.
End of line
It's more normal for the UK to use the term pennies, because we have pence. Don't Americans just have dimes, nickels, quarters etc.?
shareand Americans have pennies.
shareDon't they a lot of times just say the letter P? Like "I have 50P" or "It costs 35P".
shareWho? Americans don't do that.
shareYes, the British will. Americans are more inclined to say "cents" when talking cost, and "penny" when talking about the actual coin.
"This dog was on sale for four hundred dollars and seventy-two cents." Very rarely would one use "pennies" here - mostly to be facetious.
vs.
"This dog ate seventy-two pennies from a jar." Exactly (72) one-cent coin pieces. If you said "this dog ate 72 cents from a jar." that could mean two quarters, two dimes and two pennies. Some older people call quarters "25-cent pieces", dimes "10-cent pieces", etc.
There is some overlap and interchangeability.
Let's see who takes the bait.