Word: pennyworth
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Holmes believed in a sort of Doctrine of Discriminating Obliviousness. He professed ignorance of the Copernican design of the solar system. "What the deuce is it to me?" he asked. "You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work...