Re: OT: coins and currency

Hi!

>...
> I too was disappointed at the time. 'ecu' was IMO better, tho I can
> see the pesky "c" causing problems as over in central Europe it is
> likely to be pronounce [etsu] and if one Turkey became a member of the
> EU and adopted the common currency, I suppose it would get pronounced
> [edZu] :)
>...
I liked 'euro' better because Germans insisted on pronouncing 'ecu' as
[?e:'ky:], like French.  'euro' has the German pronunciation
['?OYRo:], so I like it better.

Only 'cent' is still suboptimal since there's no agreement on whether
it is [sEnt] or [tsEnt].  'Zent' would have been a good German word.

**Henrik

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