LL-L "Currency" 2002.02.05 (03) [E]

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From: "Andy Eagle" <andy at scots-online.org>
Subject: LL-L "Currency" 2002.02.04 (07) [E]

Colin Wilson wrote:

> Andy Eagle wrote:
>
> >Euros is of course a natural English plural formation. In Scots I would
> >expect Euro as both singular and plural as is usual with nouns of
> >measurement.
>
> That only holds with numbers, though, doesn't it? You might speak about
> "twintie euro" in the same way that you'd talk about "twintie pound",
> but I
> don't
> think anyone would talk about going to the bank "tae buy some euro". It
> really
> would have to be "tae buy some euros", whatever the ECB might try to
> dictate.

Some nouns do have the same form in the singular and plural.
"tae buy a sheep", "tae buy some sheep", is "tae buy some euro" all that
strange?

Though I think people will follow media usage i.e. "tae buy some euros".

Andy Eagle

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

I find it only natural that people continue treating "Euro" morphologically
the same way they treated the names of their respective former currencies.
Thus, English _pound_ > _pounds_, _shilling_ > _shillings_, _penny_ (>
_pennies_) > _pence_, _dollar_ > _dollars_, _cent_ > _cents_.  And I would
expect German speakers to use _Euro_ for both singular and plural, on the
pattern of _Mark_, _Groschen_, _Schilling_ and _Pfennig_.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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