The Euro is the currency used throughout the European Common Market, except for within those countries that kept their own currency
E.G. Euro is the 'official' currency of the European Common Market (As should be run by the french, if the Germans and English would let them have their way) and the £ sterling is the 'Official' currency in England The Scotch have their own £ which is the same as the English Pound until you try to use one of them funny notes in the local shop Re. The French - National pride - they never got over the 100 years war, Waterloo, Trafalgar etc. and it's not so much can't speak English, as won't If you can't speak french, don't expect most french to speak English If you can speak french, many of the french prefer to speak English to you, rather than have experience your horrible accent JimB <g> Stir stir ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Currency converter > On 22 Aug 2005 at 13:25, Hugh Gundersen wrote: > > > Actually Bernie I thought that the international recognized $ was to be > > used - possibly with E$ or $E before as in Canada C$ etc. Made sense to me > > but not apparently to the French who think, for some strange reason, they > > are Europe. > > That makes sense tome, too, but mostly as a stopgap, I think. And what's > the comment about the French? They're certainly not the only ones using > the 'official' Euro symbol: I've run across the MS-encoding on British, > German and Dutch web pages. > > > Have you noticed that all travel documents have English + French > > translation. I always thought this was because the French cannot speak any > > other language. > > I think it is a left over from when French was the "Lingua Franca" [where > English really now is]. There was a while, mostly in Eastern Europe > where German was a bit of an LF, but for the most part the LF _was_ > French and is now English, so having those two isn't so crazy, IMO. > > /Bernie\ > > -- > Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA > --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
