Re: OT: coins and currency

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 1/6/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
>>Nomad of Norad -- David C Hall wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>And then, of course, we've got the "euro."  Sometimes it's called the
>>>"euro-dollar," even though it's not the same value as a US dollar.
>>
>>Euros and Eurodollars are *not* the same thing!
>
>
> Nevertheless, since the introduction of the Euro I have often heard it
> referred to as the Euro-dollar; I've certainly heard that term far
> more often than "Eurodollar" in the sense you describe.  Complain to
> the news media. :)
Um - sounds like a Merkan thing. I've never heard the euro called that
this side of the Pond. Presumably it's a back formation from eurocent.

More confusion, it seems. We must not confuse Euro (abbreviation for
Eurodollar) with euro (the common currency of much, tho not all, of the
European union) which, it seems, gets called a 'euro-dollar' in LeftPondia.

If Mark is right in blaming the media - and I have no reason to suppose
he is not right - why do they have to make a potentially confusing
situation even more confusing?

> Hm.   Apparently the € is alt-shift-2 on my Mac.  If there's a
> mnemonic there, it's lost on me.
Interesting. On my Mac alt-shift-2 gives ™ (the trade-mark symbol); to
get € it's just alt-2      :)

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