Re: OT: coins and currency

On 1/6/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Nomad of Norad -- David C Hall wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > And then, of course, we've got the "euro."  Sometimes it's called the
> > "euro-dollar," even though it's not the same value as a US dollar.
>
> Euros and Eurodollars are *not* the same thing!
Nevertheless, since the introduction of the Euro I have often heard it
referred to as the Euro-dollar; I've certainly heard that term far
more often than "Eurodollar" in the sense you describe.  Complain to
the news media. :)

Hm.   Apparently the € is alt-shift-2 on my Mac.  If there's a
mnemonic there, it's lost on me.

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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