Two bits worth--right form, please

[nq:1]I'd like to say something like the following: I won't add my TWO BITS WORTH to this controversy. What is the correct form? . two bits' worth . two-bits worth[/nq]
The former.
Adrian

[nq:1]I'd like to say something like the following: I won't add my TWO BITS WORTH to this controversy. What is the correct form? . two bits' worth . two-bits worth or some other?[/nq]
I'd be inclined to say two cents' worth. For two bits I'd start an argument about it.

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]I'd like to say something like the following: I won't add my TWO BITS WORTH to this controversy. What is the correct form? . two bits' worth . two-bits worth or some other?[/nq]
Usage varies, and there's no decisive answer to your question. I would probably write "two-bits worth", but Bergen and Cornelia Evans, in their A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage , say
When the numer

[nq:2]I'd like to say something like the following: I won't ... the correct form? . two bits' worth . two-bits worth[/nq]
[nq:1]The former. Adrian[/nq]
Two bits' worth. But, are you sure you want to spend twenty-five cents? I've always heard "two cents' worth."
Cece

[nq:2]The former. Adrian[/nq]
[nq:1]Two bits' worth. But, are you sure you want to spend twenty-five cents? I've always heard "two cents' worth."[/nq]
BrE: "Two penn'orth".
Mike M

[nq:2]I'd like to say something like the following: I won't ... . two bits' worth . two-bits worth or some other?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd be inclined to say two cents' worth. For two bits I'd start an argument about it.[/nq]
For two pins I'd oblige if I didn't agree with you. That's my two penn'orth.

Mike.

[nq:2]Two bits' worth. But, are you sure you want to spend twenty-five cents? I've always heard "two cents' worth."[/nq]
[nq:1]BrE: "Two penn'orth". Mike M[/nq]
Yes, what I am adding is worth two bits!
Not writing for an American or British audience.
The topic is music, where a cent means a hundredth of an equal-temperament semitone.
Ashok