> Does anyone in Euroland use or say centieuros or just cents? Maybe the
>Germans still call the centieuro a pfennig, no? What about writing it out?
>Is it always 0.25 ? or maybe 25 c?? How is it done?
In Ireland we say "thirty cent" or "thirty cents". Apparently the official
recommendation for English use of both euro and cent is that the plural does
not take an "s", but many people are more comfortable with "cents" and "euros".
Official sources such as TV newsreaders generally say "twenty seven euro" or
"eighteen cent".
An amount over 1 euro is written:
<EURO SIGN> 1.27
An amount under one euro is written:
27 c
This is similar to the way punts and pence were written (with "p" for pence).
The space between the symbol and the number is often omitted. The euro sign
always goes before the number, and the cent symbol always goes after (but
the two never appear together). Again this is analogous to the old usage.
Dot is used as the separator, and not the comma.
It is a GREAT pity that the coins say EURO CENT rather than CENTIEURO. The
use of centieuro in spoken speech is pretty non-existent.
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