Re: OT coins and currency

Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:

> I notice that officially the Greeks alone are permitted to dispense with
> those two vowels and call it /ev'ro/. But the rest of us must have 'eu'.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Orthographically, the Greek is
EYP&#937;, not EBP&#937;, and phone*ically the Swedish is [Evru]*, so Greek
doesn't seem unique in either respect.


* My dictionary gives [e8)ru] as an alternate pronuncation, but nobody seems to
use that. [e8)] is a very un-Swedish diphthong.

                                                    Andreas

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