Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 19, 2001, 5:49 |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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> > They didn't :))) . In French it's called a "centime d'Euro", and the official
> > name in English is the "Eurocent". Not that anyone is gonna use this name.
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> I've a feeling that "Europenny" or even just "penny" will be more likely
> to actually get used. In the USA, the currency unit has been a "cent"
> for centuries, but the coin is still a "penny".
In Australia, the currency unit has been a `cent' for a couple of decades,
and everyone calls them cents. Admittedly, we don't have copper (1 and 2c)
coins any more, so that might be related to the problem. (We have 5c, 10c,
20c, 50c, $1 and $2 coins; the gold coins came in when the copper coins
left. The other ones are called silver coins.)
Tristan
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