One pence has made me cringe for the last 37.245 years.
It never seemed to happen before decimalisation.
I think I'd be delighted to learn that some item cost just "one penny", or "one pence", or "1p", or whatever...
Seeing as you can scarce get on a bus these days without taking out a mortgage....
In the early days of decimalization we all said "one pee", "two pee" etc., which made a lot of folks cringe! But that was mainly to reinforce the message that we were talking decimal, at a time when many folks were still
thinking in terms of half-crowns, sixpences, threepenny* bits, and old pence (and ha'pence) with a 'd'... Happily the "pee" practice seems to have died out now...
*And now a poser for our younger listeners - what was the correct pronunciation of "threepenny"?