On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 15:21:15 Tom Wade VMS Systems wrote: >> Does anyone in Euroland use or say centieuros or just cents?... >In Ireland we say "thirty cent" or "thirty cents"... >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 > The above brings some rather interesting topics for discussion. Firstly, that while people would say the number and THEN the "unit of currency" they'd write those in inverse order!!! To me this is an unacceptable contradiction. Hence, I always write 1.27 $, for instance. Never mind that they'd write the "other way around"...
Also, when it comes to cents, they'd write it in the "correct order", i.e. the monetary unit afterwards! What lack of coherence here, isn't it? However, I evidently see no problem in writing 27 <SYMBOL FOR CENT> (as opposed to 'c'). Secondly, as for plural, also, I'd have to side with following the rules of SI here which apparently call for using the plural form when the quantity is in excess of 1. >... >It is a GREAT pity that the coins say EURO CENT rather than CENTIEURO... Finally the above issue. For coherence reasons I believe we should defend 'centieuro' if we're to keep an SI-like face to monetary units. Anyways, just my 2-cents worth... Marcus Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
