Re: German style orthography

J. 'Mach' Wust scripsit:

> The pronunciation /sEnt/ reminds me always of US-dollars, so I'd
> rather prefer /tsEnt/. I could imagine that there are Swiss Germans who'd
> intuitively use the French word _centime_ /'sa~tim/ (though in French, both
> _cent_ /sa~/ and _centime_ seem to be used).
Indeed, in official Catalan the word for 1/100 euro is "centim" /sEntim/.

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