List two ways that piggy banks today's are different from ones that made a few hundred years ago?
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Answer:
Piggy banks have been around for a long time, but did you
ever wonder why people thought to make their banks in the shape
of a pig?
Pigs have nothing to do with money. They don’t store food like
a camel or a squirrel. So how did we end up using a pig as the style
of a bank? Believe it or not, it happened by mistake.
During the fifteenth century, metal was very expensive. Dishes
and pots were made of a type of inexpensive orange clay called pygg, which was pronounced just like
pig. At this time, there weren’t banks like we have today, so people would store their money at home.
When people had extra coins to save, they would place them in clay jars or pots. Since the type of clay
was called pygg, people referred to the jars as pygg banks. Over time this evolved into piggy banks.
After a few hundred years, people forgot that the word pygg referred to the clay the banks were
made from. The English language was also changing and the word pig was more commonly used. So in
the nineteenth century, when English potters began to get requests for piggy banks, they assumed their
customers were asking for banks in the shape of pigs, not banks made from pygg.
Today piggy banks are made from all kinds of materials, and they also come in a variety of
shapes and animals. But the term piggy bank is still used to refer to these adorable containers for loose
change.
Explanation:
Peggy is the most popular girl in the class and Maddie is her closest friend. Though Maddie is poor, Peggy never teases her as she does with Wanda so Maddie is afraid of losing her friendship. That's why she does not risk to annoy Peggy and prefers to be silent. The line, 'Peggy was the best-liked girl in the whole room. Peggy could not possibly do anything that was really wrong' illustrates this.