* R A Brown said on 2006-01-07 17:46:01 +0100
> The table below will make more sense with monospaced font :)
>
> RightPondians, and others, can find out more about
> the euro on:
>
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
>
>
> The official abbreviation, according to ISO 4217, for "euro" is "EUR"
> in all languages. There is no official abbreviation for "cent", but
> one could reflect on using either "c" or "ct".
> {/unquote}
I think it was Lithuania or Latvia that lacks the |eu|-diphthong/
combination completely, pronouncing it as /ei/: /eiro/ and /eira/
instead of /euro/, /evro/ and similar, and that this had led to some
conflict as the EU insisted the u was pronounced... (or was it that the
ei-speakers also wanted to write Euro as Eiro?)
t.