Some children save their money in a piggy bank before bringing it to the credit union. But why is it called a piggy bank? Because someone made a mistake. Many years ago, in about the fifteenth century, metal was expensive and seldom used for household goods. Instead, pots were made of a type of clay called pygg. Whenever housewives could save an extra coin, they dropped it into one of their clay jars. They called this their pygg bank or their piggy bank. Over the next couple of hundred years, people forgot that "pygg" referred to the material.
In the nineteenth century when English potters received requests for piggy banks, they thought it meant to make something in the shape of a pig. Of course, the pigs appealed to the customers and so today we have piggy banks in the shape of a pig.
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