Re: USAGE: Currencies and -s

At 01:09 30.8.2000 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>Except that English speakers do not speak about "crowns" with reference
>to currency unless they want to sound like an eighteenth century Enlightenment
>philosopher, so we don't use that term.  :)
Well, then you have to learn to distinguish between "krona/kronur"
"krona/kronor" "krone/kroner" "kroona/kroonad" and whatever the Czech call
theirs in the plural, and use them properly, or change your way of
thinking.  Anyway 50 öre (1/2 krona) is the last < 1 SEK denomination still
recognized, so you soon won't run the risk of having to say "half a crown"!
;-)>

We really do prefer _crown_ as the aAnglification -- and THW eighteenth
century Enlightenment philosophers! -- rather than having our native terms
mangled.

I suppose you know what a _putto_, plural _putti_ is?  Since the plural is
so much more common some Swedes use it as a singular, coining the false
"foreign" plural _puttis_ then some people reanalyse _-is_ as a Swedish
diminutive ending, and coin the new plural _puttisar_.(*)  I'm sure you
find **that** as abominable as I do, so why insist on the right to mangle
the word(s) for our currencies.

Y'all better just say SEK /'es'ij'key/, NOK /'en'ow'kej/, DKK
/'dij'kej'kej/ etc.!

(* The proper Swedish plural should be _puttoer_, BTW!)

/BP 8^)>
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