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Re: OT: coins and currency

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, January 8, 2006, 18:34
Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> 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.
What's bad about that? FWIW, it was usually pronounced [E'ky:] in Swedish media. Andreas

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