The word 'cents' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when referring to a unit of currency that is equal to one hundredth of a larger unit, such as a dollar. Example: The cost of the item was 75 cents.
"During this depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that, for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles," Franklin D Roosevelt stated in 1935, referring to the world's biggest and littlest star.
The excellent house wine is 90 cents a glass, cicheti are €1-€1.50, with a sharing plate of cheeses and salami at €15.
Years ago, Roy Jenkins asked me if I recalled that, in The Great Crash, Kenneth Galbraith had identified the beginning of the interwar slump as the day when the value of shares in Union Carbide plunged from several dollars to a few cents.
In 2001, a sim card cost approximately $100 and local calls cost 33 cents per minute.
First, though, we are stopped by the gatekeeper of a quite surreal bridge over the Sile canal: it's a ponte a pagamento (toll bridge) resting on second world war pontoons, and we part with 70 cents for the privilege of crossing.
US hedge funds that bought its debt for a song a few years ago are demanding that 100 cents on the dollar be repaid.
And it can bear a certain amount of inflation – every coin can be split into 100m "satoshis", each of which would be worth 0.001 cents at an exchange rate of $1,000 for each Bitcoin.
Traders know they were lucky with the September meeting and now they are cashing in their chips before Ben Bernanke throws in his two cents.
I am certain heads of state and governments in the EU, and all Eurocrats, can afford 10 cents a cup.
Their mission is to alter eating habits by offering a delicious burger for 99 cents, in a bun created by Tartine's Chad Robertson, rather than banging on about kale.
In 2006, staff from Legatum, a Dubai-based investment firm, read in a Financial Times article that the worst neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) could be controlled for just 50 cents per person per year.
