A new survey finds less than half of British people now carry a wallet – even though 80% own one
Name: The wallet.
Age: The word originates from the late 14th century, meaning something like knapsack. That’s how Shakespeare uses it in Troilus and Cressida, when Ulysses says: “Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back.”
Hath he now? Not an Apple Wallet, then? It would be useful for carrying apples, or any other seasonal fruit.
I meant a digital wallet. We’ll come to digital ones. But first to 1834, the first recording, in American English, of its modern use.
