On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:32:16PM +0000, Kevin Bracey wrote: > In message <p0510100ab8c630b43d7b@[193.120.113.138]> > Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > I have written an open letter to the Minister for Finance, Charlie > > McCreevy, about the serious problem we have in Ireland, namely, that > > the false plural without -s is used with the words "euro" and "cent" > > in Ireland and that this bad grammar is given to us all hundreds of > > times of day on television every day. > > Hmm. Bit off-topic, but... > > I see the EU have tied themselves up in knots over this. Personally, I'm > quite happy with "euro" as a plural, as "euros" is pretty ugly (and why > shouldn't it be "euroes", like "heroes"?). There's also precedent with other > currencies, such as "yen", albeit with the excuse that they were foreign > words. > > On the other hand, "cent" as a plural is silly, as it's a pre-existing > English word, which already has a perfectly functional regular plural.
In danish some measures do not have a plural, like meter and liter I think this is the rule the eurocats were thinking of. keld
