Re: CHAT: San Marino
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 28, 2000, 21:59 |
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> Still, what would I do with a krona if I were speaking in English?
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> seven krona?
> seven kronas?
> seven kronor?
>
> or a lira?
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> nine lira (yeah, right, what would that buy me? let's amend that to)
> nine million lira (so, perhaps, we could buy an orange)
> nine million liras
> nine million lire
I use the first option for all foreign currancies. I'm a bit surprised by
this, to be honest. I spent years in Spain, and when speaking Spanish is
do say "dos pasetas", but when speaking English, I find "two pasetas" to
be very akward. For me it should be "two paseta".
Marcus