From: Séamas Ó Brógáin (leabhair@iol.ie)
Date: Sat Apr 09 2005 - 13:37:17 CST
Peter Kirk wrote:
> . . . if a country changes the official name of its currency unit but
> does not change the symbol, as Ireland did when it changed the name of
> its currency from pound to punt.
Nitpicking correction: It did nothing of the sort. "Pound" is the name
of the unit in English, "punt" is the name of the unit in Irish. (The
use of "punt" in English-language contexts is very recent, and has no
official basis.)
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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