Re: Euros and cents

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 12:55:47 EST

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:32:16PM +0000, Kevin Bracey wrote:
> 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"?).

Here in the US, I don't think I've ever heard euro as a plural. My
German teacher was passing euros (yes, auf Englisch) around class today,
not euro. "Having 3 euro" seems very unnatural; having 3 euros or euroes
or even euren (analagous to children, boxen, Vaxen, oxen) would be more
natural. 

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David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
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