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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:20
En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> > 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". >
I would have liked it too, but the Germans disagreed. After all, well before the name "Euro" was adopted, they already called the Ecu: the Euro-mark. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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