Re: USAGE: Currencies and -s
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 12:59 |
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At 17:49 28.8.2000 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>I think you're right here. For some reason, I find "yens" and "yuans"
>completely unacceptable; "kronas" almost as much. "liras" is slightly
>better than all those, but I'd still prefer "lira" as the plural of liras,
>personally.
Hrmpf! "Kronas" is utterly and totally abysmally unacceptable! The English
word for the currency of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, The Faroes, Iceland,
Estonia and The Czech Republic is **Crown(s)**! This simply is The Way It
Is, hear ye all!
And why? Because in each lg they got their own plural formation. And
besides there was once an English coin called "Crown". Last but not least
that's what the word means(*)
(* Except that there was a Gondorean coin which was called _corma_, since
it was round, and normal Numenorean coins were hexagonal! ;-)
/BP 8^)>
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