Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 7:52 |
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At 20:49 8.6.2003 +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>And I still wish they'd kept calling the common currency "écu". The variation
>in the pronunciation of "Euro" across the EU's languages is rather annoying if
>you ask me. Altho' I have to say that _Teuro_ is a wonderful word.
I think it would have been wonderful if they had called it _Sestertius_, or its
reflexes in the various languages.
/BP 8^)
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