Re: OT: coins and currency

Hi!

Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:
> >...
> > I liked 'euro' better because Germans insisted on pronouncing 'ecu' as
> > [?e:'ky:], like French.
>
> What's bad about that?
Well, it then feels like it's a French currency.  To make it neutral,
it should have a neutral name.  And most easily, it's neutral when
everyone has a native name for it.  That's all.  And this was and is
no flame against French. :-)

**Henrik