Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 17:16 |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Anton Sherwood wrote:
> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > French "écu" comes from the Old French word for "shield": "escu".
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> (Latin <scutum>)
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> > Why it became used for coins I don't know, . . .
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> Presumably they showed the royal coat-of-arms.
Let's see, we have the ecu for France, the escudo for Spain and Portugal,
the shilling for England, the scudo for Italy, so I'd blame it on
Charlemagne.