Another Trivia Q. about Minding your P's & Q's. Ready?

Question

Where do you think the term Mind your P's & Q's came from?

Anyone? Take a guess?
First correct answer doesn't have to mind them!
SmileyCat : )

Answer 1

Originally came from a bar.. mind your pints & quarters...

Answer 2

There is no definitive theory about the origin of the phrase.

The expression could have come from printing. When type was set by hand, these letters in lower case are mirror images of each other. The expression was reminding you to be careful not to switch them, because typesetters had to view the typeset text backwards. b and d are another such pair, but are
separated by the c bin.

Another theory is that the phrase comes from the practice in certain British pubs of tallying a customer's purchases on a blackboard behind the bar, with the notation "P" standing for "pints" and "Q" for quarts. If a customer failed to pay close attention and "mind his P's and Q's," he might well find by evening's end that the barkeep had padded his tab.

Yet another theory, drawn from the schoolroom, is that any child approaching the mystery of penmanship soon discovers that the lowercase "p" is devilishly easy to confuse with the lowercase "q." Thus, the theory goes, generations of teachers exhorting their small charges to "mind your P's and Q's" created a enduring metaphor for being attentive and careful.

Still other theories tie the "P" to "pea" cloth (the rough fabric used in "pea jackets") and the "Q" to "queue," which meant a ponytail, either that of the fancy wigs worn by courtiers of the day or the real ponytails commonly worn by sailors. In the upscale version of this theory, young aristocrats were cautioned not to get the powder from their wigs on their jackets made of pea cloth. The sailor version has old salts advising newcomers to dip their ponytails in tar (a common practice, believe it or not), but to avoid soiling their pea jackets with the tar.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Ithink it came from someone who had alot of people in their buissness .