Re: CHAT Was: Re: Accents

Stephen Mulraney wrote:


> * regular plural form is unattested in official literature ;) "5 euro".
> I'm just waiting to hear some Dublin salt say "five euro me arse! 'Tis 5
> effin' euros! Jaysus!"

Check out http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/euro-eora-en.pdf
for a fine rant on the subject (or -ga if you'd rather read the
rant in Irish) by Michael Everson.  His conclusions:  "euro, euros,
cent, cents" for English; the written forms "eora" (or "eoro") and
"ceint" with proper inflections for Irish ("ocht n-eora, cuig cheint,
ocht gceint").  (Apologies for omitting accents.)



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