Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:20 |
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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.
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