On 16 Dec 2001, at 20:05, James R. Frysinger wrote: > For example, in English one apparently would say "one euro, one > hundred euro, one cent, one hundred cent". Likewise, one would say > "the euro, the many euro, the cent, the many cent". In otherwords, the
There are three reasons for this oddity: the first one is that it is an appreviation of European, and in the original word the declinatioin is in the "lost" co the second is that using an invariant form for the name there are no problem on multiple units to be spelled differently in different languages (in fact evry coina and note carry the invariant part) the third is that considering Euro as an Unit it would follows the same rule of Ampere, Volt, Hertz etc. that are invariant. Dtw in italian while Euro is surely invariant for the hundredth part of it is also uset tha word "centesimo" that can be pluralized regularly. Leonardo Boselli (NIT) Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze Via Santa Marta 3 I-50139 Firenze +39()055-4796-431
