Re: OT: coins and currency

Hi R (R A Brown), in <43C0D5B4.3020908@...> on Jan 8 you wrote:

> Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > On 1/7/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
[...]

> (and adjective formations in English tend to eschew
> > plurals, hence the "twenty-dollar bill" rather than the
> > *"twenty-dollars bill"), so using "euro" in English sans -s sounds
> > very strange.  By which I mean, it sounds French. :)
>
> To us Brits 'twould sound OK in some contexts, but not in all. IMO while
> it is desirable to have an officially established form for the singular,
> I think it would have been better to allow national languages to decide
> their own plurals by usage.
I have a sneaking suspicion this will happen anyway, no matter what the
bureaucrats do...  :-D

> >>Also I notice that no Irish forms were included.
> >
> >
> > And no Esperanto!  For shame, EU! :)
>
> Um - not an official language of the EU. But all officially recognized
> national languages are given official recognition by the EU. If it is
> seen fit to include Irish on my EU pass-port surely Irish should have
> been included among the official list of names of the currency?
>
> But if there has to be an IAL included, surely Europanto has a greater
> claim?  ;-)
Heh!

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