On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:32:16PM +0000, Kevin Bracey wrote:
> In message <p0510100ab8c630b43d7b@[193.120.113.138]>
> Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > I have written an open letter to the Minister for Finance, Charlie
> > McCreevy, about the serious problem we have in Ireland, namely, that
> > the false plural without -s is used with the words "euro" and "cent"
> > in Ireland and that this bad grammar is given to us all hundreds of
> > times of day on television every day.
>
> Hmm. Bit off-topic, but...
>
> I see the EU have tied themselves up in knots over this. Personally, I'm
> quite happy with "euro" as a plural, as "euros" is pretty ugly (and why
> shouldn't it be "euroes", like "heroes"?). There's also precedent with other
> currencies, such as "yen", albeit with the excuse that they were foreign
> words.
>
> On the other hand, "cent" as a plural is silly, as it's a pre-existing
> English word, which already has a perfectly functional regular plural.
In danish some measures do not have a plural, like meter and liter
I think this is the rule the eurocats were thinking of.
keld
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