Re: OT: coins and currency

Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:

> http://europa.eu.int/euro
>
> Among its pages you will discover this:
> {quote}
> Spelling of the words “euro” and “cent” in the official Community
> languages - to be used when drawing up Community Legislative acts
>
>          expressed as an amount ********* with definite article
> language  one unit  several units        singular    plural
>    DA       1 euro   100 euro             euroen      euroene
>             1 cent   100 cent             centen      centene
>
>    DE       1 Euro   100 Euro             der Euro    die Euro
>             1 Cent   100 Cent             der Cent    die Cent
>
>    EL 1 ευρώ 100 ευρώ το ευρώ τα
> ευρώ
>             1 λεπτό 100 λεπτά το λεπτό
>             τα
> λεπτά
>
>    EN       1 euro   100 euro (1)         the euro    the euro (1)
>             1 cent   100 cent (1)         the cent    the cent (1)
>
>    ES       1 euro   100 euros            el euro     los euros
>             1 cent   100 cents            el cent     los cents
>
>    FR       1 euro   100 euros            l'euro      les euros
>             1 cent   100 cents            le cent     les cents
>
>    IT       1 euro   100 euro             l'euro      gli euro
>             1 cent   100 cent             il cent     i cent
>
>    NL       1 euro   100 euro             de euro     de euro's
>             1 cent   100 cent             de cent     de centen
>
>    PT       1 euro   100 euros            o euro      os euros
>             1 cent   100 cents            o cent      os cents
>
>    FI       1 euro   100 euroa (2)        euro        eurot
>             1 sentti 100 senttiä (2)      sentti      sentit
>
>    SV       1 euro   100 euro             euron (3)   eurorna (3)
>             1 cent   100 cent             centen      centen
> ____________________________
> (1) This spelling without an "s" may be seen as departing from usual
> English practice for currencies.
> (2) The form used is the singular partitive form.
> (3) Used for references to "the currency" or coins.
>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.

                                                       Andreas

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