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