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Re: CHAT: San Marino

From:SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...>
Date:Monday, August 28, 2000, 21:59
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> Still, what would I do with a krona if I were speaking in English? > > seven krona? > seven kronas? > seven kronor? > > or a lira? > > 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