»In which I stuff the slang into my wallet

Aram and I are both excited about the United States' new ten-dollar bill. I stopped at the bank on Tuesday to see when they will have some, and they said probably over the next few days, but that they could not promise me any until next week.

The five is a finif, the twenty a sawbuck, the fifty a nifty, the hundred (recently, I suppose), a benjamin. Even the lowly one-dollar-bill has a moniker: the single. What of the ten? Do Americans call it a tenner? And let us not speak of the two-dollar-bill.
And I suppose that I should fess up: finif is my favourite of the slang names, not for what it's a palindrome and all, and also quite pleasant on the tongue. Sawbuck ... ugh! Gives my mouth the shivers just to say it.
UPDATE: Aram says that "ten-spot" is what he calls the bill, and Greg calls them "Hamiltons".

salim filed this under lingo and media friendsy at 09h27 Thursday, 02 March 2006 (link) (Yr two bits?)