Selling England by the pound

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Selling England by the pound

After a big dinar I've not got room for any Maltesers.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Selling England by the pound

150 years of British rule and protection?

"Pounds" isn't strictly a "British" invented term, anyway, it dates back to when a "pound" of something at the market place was equivalent in terms of weight (of carrots, grain, potatoes, or gold) or - by extension - hours of labour. That's a Norman thing, which must have been throughout Europe at the time ("Livres" in France, "Lira" in Italy, "punts" in Gaelic)?

[anton pulisov]

Selling England by the pound

It's Euro. The plural of Euro is Euro.

It's Euros in English.

The Irish media incorrectly uses "Euro" in the English language because they think it sounds more sophisticated. See also the use of "cent" in the plural form, which is just plain stupid.

[Ek weet nie]

Selling England by the pound

It's Euro in all European legislation See here. However, after doing a modicum of research, the natural plural seems to be encouraged when dealing with the general public.

The Irish media uses "Euro" because that is what the Ministry of Finance advised when the Euro was adopted.

[anton pulisov]

Selling England by the pound

The Irish media does what they're told.

[Banana Banana]

Selling England by the pound

Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote:

150 years of British rule and protection?

"Pounds" isn't strictly a "British" invented term, anyway, it dates back to when a "pound" of something at the market place was equivalent in terms of weight (of carrots, grain, potatoes, or gold) or - by extension - hours of labour. That's a Norman thing, which must have been throughout Europe at the time ("Livres" in France, "Lira" in Italy, "punts" in Gaelic)?

And is latin. It's why old money was L.S.D. not P.S.P. Indeed isn't the £ sign just an ornate L?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Selling England by the pound

Wasn't there one country where "Euro" used to be a popular euphemism for wanking, so they had a huge (and presumably quite comical) debate about whether they could use the term? Was it Portuguese?

[garcia]

Selling England by the pound

it looks like LM was hailing a dead cat bounce on january 6th. brown has shown by now that he has no interest in propping up the pound. he sees currency depreciation and a period of inflation as the best way to restore british competitiveness. even if he did want to defend the pound he doesn't have the money to do it.

i think that if any of you have substantial sterling-denominated savings, you might want to think about converting at least some of these into euros.

[Brandenburger Toro]

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The term was coined by stipulation, they can make the plural whatever they like. That's what stipulation is.

So yeah, it's dumb, and it makes the common currency of a continent sound like a Pokemon, but the plural of Euro is Euro. Deal.

[anton pulisov]

Selling England by the pound

You'd make a great bureaucrat.

[anton pulisov]

Selling England by the pound

Other rules disagree:

20.8 The euro. Like ‘pound’, ‘dollar’ or any other currency name in English, the word ‘euro’ is written in lower case with no initial capital and, where appropriate, takes the plural ‘s’ (as does ‘cent’):

This book costs ten euros and fifty cents

However, in documents and tables where monetary amounts figure largely, make maximum use of the € symbol (closed up to the figure) or the
abbreviation EUR before the amount.

Seeing as the EU can't even decide if it's euro or euros, it's best to just use the natural way of saying it in English. In Spain they say "euros" as well.

[Ginger Yellow]

Selling England by the pound

The term was coined by stipulation, they can make the plural whatever they like.

In their own documents, sure, but they don't get to dictate usage to anyone else. My publication is firmly "euro" and "euros". Others aren't. Deal.