From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Sun Apr 10 2005 - 03:46:25 CST
What Peter Kirk says below is wrong and what Séamus says is right.
mg
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Scríobh Séamas Ó Brógáin:
>
> 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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-- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *
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