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Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Sunday, December 16, 2001, 1:05
Am 15.12.01, Thomas R. Wier yscrifef:

> Why an official plural? EU-think, that's why. If not, you'd > be dangerously close to lacking "European solidarity". There > can be no diversity, only unity.
Except that there already is - the Greek for "cent" will be "lepton". Though I agree about the "EU-think" angle. _That's_ why none of the banknotes actually feature real places: all the pictures are "generic European architectural elements" or some such nonsense. Padraic. -- Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.