Slang for euro?

bobsmith833

What do you call the european single currency when you're referring to it in every day conversation? Obviously, you can't say the whole thing as it would get very tedious.

Elmo

No I always say 5 European Single Currencies or is that 5 European Single Currency????????

Mainly though i still say 5 quid etc.

Are You just starting Quo?

bobsmith833

Originally posted by Elmo
Are You just starting Quo?

I'm sure I heard it somewhere before, but I do think it's quite clever - 'quid pro quo' and all that, plus it rhymes...

ballooba

5 balloons

JohnK

I'd call it a quid but I get abuse from people telling me that its the €uro now. As far as I'm concerned a "quid" is a unit of local currency. If I'm in Ireland, 1 quid is €1; England 1 quid is £1, in the US 1 quid is $1
And thats the way I likes it!!!!!!!!

Catch_22

yoyo's of course !

helen_br

Originally posted by JohnK
If I'm in Ireland, 1 quid is €1; England 1 quid is £1, in the US 1 quid is $1
And thats the way I likes it!!!!!!!!

Yeah I'd agree with that, John. A leopard cannot change its spots, and personally I've been saying quid since I were a little girl!

Washout

I say five squids

SoundWave

5 blips

Bard

"That'll be 3 Europeans please, buddy"

Sometimes say "quid".

"Yo-yo's" seems kinda D4'ish.

(Might as well call them "credits" really)

Evil Phil

Pongo! The global currency unit.

Washout

yo-yo is what a oriental visitor to our shores would say..

Only joking now triad

boogie man

Euro!

boogie man

I'm also partial to Buckaroony or indeed Buckaroonies

Sangre

That'll be 5 chuckles please.

mooman_00

well im from a desolate part of cork(anywhere half an hour outside the city limits in some cases) and we are boycotting dem euro thingys in favour of a new system called bartering, its where i give you some of my thingys in exchange for your stuff. Its catchin on like wild fire, and you dont have to carry cash, although you do really need to take a pig everywhere in order to stay out of trouble, or at least a rew hens, sack of spuds etc....
That euro nonsense is all bollox, europe is just takin the piss outta us, thing about it, you'll agree that im right...!!!

po0k

1 Euro
2 Euros

1 Europe/Yeurope
2 Europes/Yeuropes

1 Chit
2 Chits

1 quid
2 quid
3 quid
etc.

1 spud
2 spuds

DannyD

yo-yo is just plain stupid and used by people with yo-yos for brains.People just sound so stupid and childish when they say it.

I am proud to say Euro and not Euros.

Funky

Originally posted by Bard
"Yo-yo's" seems kinda D4'ish.

man i wouldnt be loike caught dead saying that roysh?

Sangre

Hmm I think'll start saying 'rupees' from now on, what game is that from btw?

DRakE

Originally posted by Washout
I say five squids

I'm better off, i say 50 squids

tman

you got the euroage?

i normally call them euro (same word for singular & plural afaik)

every once in a while i'll call them - bucks, dollars, yoyo, quid or squid

Kalina

I NEVER have any so I call it "the holy grail".

Moriarty

Europeans

monument

Originally posted by Bard
"That'll be 3 Europeans please, buddy"

"Yo-yo's" seems kinda D4'ish.

That's such bs, in the first days of the Euro people in nearly every part of Ireland started calling it Yo-yo's.

I usually call them Euro, sometimes pounds, yo-yo's or quid.

Lorax

Originally posted by Sangre
Hmm I think'll start saying 'rupees' from now on, what game is that from btw?

That would be zelda

Dont be at yourself

EUropean ROubles or Eepoes (being my pronunciation of the greek lettering on the notes) or yo-yos.

Kappar

5 federal bureaus
5 feadralies
5 Europeans
A fiver
5 Dolla’ (An odd time)

Gordon

Pound or quid, I keep stuttering over "Euro" so I think I'll just let my mouth say what it feels.
"That's 5 pounds please madam."
"But it only costs 1 euro"
"Oh, sorry, that's 5 Euro please madam"

Monkey

"yo-yo is just plain stupid and used by people with yo-yos for brains.People just sound so stupid and childish when they say it.

I am proud to say Euro and not Euros"

You sound like the stupid one. Proud to say Euro ??!!? Twit.

It's Yoyos all the way ?

Stephen

Euros. Note the 's'.

sceptre

That's it Stephen, keep it going, work those arms.

Few people I know call them "notes"

Being a lazy fecker who doesn't work in a shop, I don't call them euros or rupees or bongos or any of that nonense.

"How much was it?"

"Forty-five"
or "Four-fifty" or whatever.

Where there's confusion as to whether a yorkie may have cost sixty-five cents or sixty-five euros, I either call them "euros" or "balloopas". Yes, I made it up. Sounds nice and I do use it (even though I'm not five)

regi

Hmm I think'll start saying 'rupees' from now on, what game is that from btw?

Is India a game now?

Pepe LeFrits

yoyos usually

Space Coyote

Yoyo's unfortunately...it just comes out

or Europes

or De Niro's

or Billy's

Kastro

europeian dollars (at least i can spell dollars lol)
seein as how thats what the currancy is..

Big Chief

im from scotland so im kinda used to saying "quid", i still tend to say euro just incase ppl in ireland aint a clue what im talking about

Victor

Originally posted by Regi
Is India a game now?

Yeah, its a sequel to "The Great Game" in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Mossy Monk

i say euros but i get verbal abuse for being grammatically incorrect

pickarooney

Marklars.

Dun

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
i say euros but i get verbal abuse for being grammatically incorrect

I started off saying Euros to be gramatically incorrect on purpose, but I switched to Euro - only realised it's cause I'd a habit of saying fifty poun' instead of fifty pounds. Along the same line I always say fifty cent, but that's cause cents just doesn't roll off the tongue for me. Sounds too much like cent.

ozt9vdujny3srf

Originally posted by pickarooney
Marklars.

yeah, i will givew u 5 marclars for that marclar, if you maclar, and if i marcar the maclar, i shall eat my marclar, tbm(to be marclar) imm (in my marclar)

Mercury_Tilt

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PH01

Ees

helen_br

I call them polovoy-chlyens myself.

Mind you, I'm not sure why yo-yos is good, like, cos it ain't really a word that rolls of the tongue.

DapperGent

A bill.

****ing 5 bills for a pint.

Sometimes yo-yo, which I like.

Sometimes quid.

Sometimes europeans when I'm not into that whole brevity thing.

Mostly just bills though.

Dr_Teeth

I say quid, it's curreny-independant as JohnK mentioned.

Rupees comes from the Zelda games.

And it's Euros, with an 's' as we speak English here you peons!

Teeth.

Dustaz

Rupees is the currency of India you mongs

Euros is gramatically correct (ask Yoda) as its an allowable localisation of the term under european guidelines.


I say quid tbh

Sangre

Its still in Zelda

helen_br

Originally posted by Dustaz
Euro's is gramatically correct (ask Yoda) as its an allowable localisation of the term under european guidelines.

Well you're right and you're wrong there, mate - the word you've rendered above is gramatically correct under these circumstances: 1 - possessive (e.g. the euro's fast rise in recent times has prompted fears of recession) or, 2 - abbreviation (e.g. the euro's rising very fast at the moment).

It's not a valid plural though. Try euros, or possibly euroes, which *might* be valid as it's analagous to zeroes, tomatoes etc.

nesthead

say quid, euro-dolla' the odd time, type yoyos. whats so wrong with yoyos, euro-dolla' the odd time

hehe, De Niros best of all