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

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Sunday, December 16, 2001, 22:37
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> PS I would much have prefered if the EU currency had got called _écu_ > (homophonous pl _écus_) as earlier planned. Sounds good (if you can > pronunce that [y]!), have historical justification, is nice Abbrev, > and avoids that omnipresent "euro".
Yeah, I liked <ecu> too (for awhile it was an acronym for European Currency Unit). Apparently some saw it as French imperialism. -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/

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