Before settling on “The Sharp End”, potential titles for this column included a variety of references to money. One such suggestion was “The Folding Stuff”, though as you can see, it did not make the final cut.

Strangely, not only is money known colloquially by that name, but with time a subculture has developed of folding paper money into intricate pieces in a form of monetary origami. One theory is that this started with bored American troops during the Second World War who began to fold dollar bills.