Re: OT: coins and currency

R A Brown wrote at 2006-01-07 20:15:39 (+0000)
 > Andreas Johansson wrote:
 > > Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:
 > [snip]
 >
 > > From some googling, _eurorna_ indeed appears to be the offical
 > > definite plural form in Swedish, but common is also _eurona_,
 > > which is prefered by some authorities (assuming writing a
 > > newspaper column on language use makes you an authority).
 > >
 > > Personally, I find the form _eurorna_ cringe-inducing.
 >
 > Yep - and I cannot imagine the plural beings always 'euro' and
 > 'cent' in practice in English. I would expect _both_ euro _and_
 > euros, just we use both pound and pounds now. For example, we say
 > 'a five pound note', 'a ten pound note', and a price like £5.50 is
 > more likely to be said as 'five pound fifty' than 'five pounds
 > fifty' tho £5.00 is more likely to be 'five pounds' than 'five
 > pound'. But the -s would always be included in something like 'How
 > many pounds have you got?'
 >
 > While 'five euros fifty' will come quite naturally to us
 > anglophones, I find it difficult to imagine many people saying 'How
 > many euro have you got?'
 >

Michael Everson, perhaps best known for his work on Unicode, has been
vocal on this issue.  See

http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/

particularly
http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/todayfm.html and
http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/open-letter.pdf

 >
 > The official directive seemed a tad over-prescriptive to me. Also I
 > notice that no Irish forms were included. Yet Ireland has adopted
 > the euro as it currency and AFAIU the Irish has the same official
 > standing as the other languages given.

Only since June of last year.  Presumably the relevant documents
haven't (yet) been updated to include Irish forms.