From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen"
> > From: Padraic Brown
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> > Could be due to too little time as an English word? Less exotic
> > (due to longer contact) are rials, dinars, roubles, etc. Perhaps
> > in a few centuries more, we'll have yuans and yens.
I did not write this.
> Kroner is the (indefinite) plural --- not that that should prevent
> any other language from tacking on some more plural endings, but it
> looks weird to me. Just call them crowns, that's what it means anyway.
I'd rather hang. "Crown" sounds like some arcane English currency
(dictionary check says it was worth five shillings). Different animal from
the krona, even if that's the direct translation.
> > One lira, two liras.
> >
> > Allright. Two million liras. :)
>
> ITL 2000 is USD 1, within a factor of two, and that has been true for
> as long as I can remember.
I was merely exaggerating for effect, though what I wrote is not represented
here.
> Danish uses lire as the currency name --- en lire, totusind lire, and
> so on. I don't know if it's a danification of lira or if the Italian
> plural just got used because it's so rare to talk about one.
The former seems more likely to me.
Kou