Its "Euro" not "Euros"

Clytus · 31-01-2008 10:33PM #1

Right...I remember just before the Euro changeover somone on the Pat Kenny show telling us why you cant pluralise the word Euro ( something to do with the word beginning and ending with a vowel)

If thats the case why do so so many News readers ,TV hosts, Radio broadcasters ( George Hook being the most guilty) and folks in general say "Euros"??

...and I may as well ask this while posting,but why on earth do some Dublin people find the need to refer to "Crisps" as "crips"???...are people with a Dublin accent just being lazy while they talk and cant be bothered to pull back thier tounge to pronounce the "Cris" part of the word??

Or maybe Im just missing something!!:(

WhiteWashMan · 31-01-2008 10:35PM

who gives a fcuks?

Jesus Wept · 31-01-2008 10:36PM

Because plank was the wrong messenger.

Clytus wrote: »

...and I may as well ask this while posting,but why on earth do some Dublin people find the need to refer to "Chrisps" as "crips"???...are people with a Dublin accent just being lazy while they talk and cant be bothered to pull back thier tounge to pronounce the "Chris" part of the word??

Or maybe Im just missing something!!

Woah, back up there. That's not a Dublin thing.
If anything I'd of said it's more of a country thing, but to be more accurate, I guess it's a people thing.

It depends on the person, and yes it does sound stupid.

Jeapy · 31-01-2008 10:36PM

Clytus wrote: »

Right...I remember just before the Euro changeover somone on the Pat Kenny show telling us why you cant pluralise the word Euro ( something to do with the word beginning and ending with a vowel)

If thats the case why do so so many News readers ,TV hosts, Radio broadcasters ( George Hook being the most guilty) and folks in general say "Euros"??

...and I may as well ask this while posting,but why on earth do some Dublin people find the need to refer to "Chrisps" as "crips"???...are people with a Dublin accent just being lazy while they talk and cant be bothered to pull back thier tounge to pronounce the "Chris" part of the word??

Or maybe Im just missing something!!:(

Maybe Im missing something but I don't think there's any "h" in crisps! Ive heard people use crips though, i think its hilarious! People saying euros annoys me but Ive read somewhere that both are acceptable.

Rb · 31-01-2008 10:36PM

crisps

AckwelFoley · 31-01-2008 10:36PM

WhiteWashMan wrote: »

who gives a fcuks?

Post of the day.

Have some cake.

rollie · 31-01-2008 10:37PM

their bloody yo-yo's

dsmythy · 31-01-2008 10:37PM

Regional dialects. It's just how it is.

AckwelFoley · 31-01-2008 10:37PM

Genius.. whats the plural for Penis??

Kinetic^ · 31-01-2008 10:38PM

snyper wrote: »

Genius.. whats the plural for Penis??

I would like to refer you to wwm's post above.

rollie · 31-01-2008 10:38PM

...or squids...

Wreck · 31-01-2008 10:39PM

According to the Boosh it's Euro's so thats the end of that. Unless you want to get trapped in a box by a cockney nutjob.

mike65 · 31-01-2008 10:39PM

anal or what

Mike.

Fremen · 31-01-2008 10:40PM

Shut up, that's why!

Ruu_Old · 31-01-2008 10:40PM

Euroings!

rollie · 31-01-2008 10:41PM

or i am reliably informed if you're from kiliney they're called snots

Dr_Teeth · 31-01-2008 10:41PM

Clytus wrote: »

Right...I remember just before the Euro changeover somone on the Pat Kenny show telling us why you cant pluralise the word Euro ( something to do with the word beginning and ending with a vowel)

Or maybe Im just missing something!!:(

You are of course completely wrong.. and you're not alone either, sadly.

A good explanation:

http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/euronames.html

AckwelFoley · 31-01-2008 10:41PM

Kenny 5 wrote: »

I would like to refer you to wwm's post above.

Bwahahaha!!

i think its "penii"

Pighead · 31-01-2008 10:42PM

Don't mind the nasty whitewashman Clytus. Pighead for one thinks you've created a marvellous little thread here. So many questions that can be discussed, debated and ignored at length.

Interestingly If placed end to end the amount of new legal euro tender would reach to the moon and back five times. Took Pighead an age to get over that staggering fact. Anyway will be back later on to talk more euro with you pal.

kizzyr · 31-01-2008 10:42PM

Clytus wrote: »

Right...I remember just before the Euro changeover somone on the Pat Kenny show telling us why you cant pluralise the word Euro ( something to do with the word beginning and ending with a vowel)

If thats the case why do so so many News readers ,TV hosts, Radio broadcasters ( George Hook being the most guilty) and folks in general say "Euros"??

...and I may as well ask this while posting,but why on earth do some Dublin people find the need to refer to "Chrisps" as "crips"???...are people with a Dublin accent just being lazy while they talk and cant be bothered to pull back thier tounge to pronounce the "Chris" part of the word??

Or maybe Im just missing something!!:(

Its crisps not Chrisps .......although to be fair the "crips" thing bugs the hell out of me too as does "bokkle" rather than "bottle" "likkle" in place of "little" "hostipal" for "hospital" "trouders" for "trousers", "cousint" for "cousin". Then there are the people who say "package of crips" not "packet of crisps". For the biggest irritant I'm torn between people (and there are a lot of them) who insist on saying "O8" (as in the letter "O") when it should be "08" (as in the number zero). Why oh why do people use the letter when they are really talking about a number? This also happen when people speak about the number hundred in the singular. They say "a hundred" rather than "one hundred". To say "a hundred people were there" is ok but when someone says "the first a hundred people to arrive"......really annoys me. I get need to get a life don't I?:o
Re: Pat Kenny and the beginning and ending with a vowel and not being able to use the plural doesn't stand up; e.g. apple / apples, orange/ oranges omelette / omelettes

dewsbury · 31-01-2008 10:44PM

The euro was a new word (in a currency sense). Words evolve and this evolution suggestions that both forms are acceptable and correct (I use the word correct loosely).

Personally I prefer "euros" as it uses the normal pluralisation protocol of simply adding the letter "s" to the end of the word.
"Euros" would seem a more natural use of the word for english speakers.

There is no right or wrong in this matter.

dsmythy · 31-01-2008 10:46PM

snyper wrote: »

Bwahahaha!!

i think its "penii"

I think it's actually the less interesting; Penises

Wishbone Ash · 31-01-2008 10:47PM

I refuse to use 'Euro' (unless referring to a single Euro).

'Euro' for plural just sounds stupid!

It's my little form of protest just like ordering 'chips' in McDonalds especially when being served by a manager!

dsmythy · 31-01-2008 10:49PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I refuse to use 'Euro' (unless referring to a single Euro).

'Euro' for plural just sounds stupid!

It's my little form of protest just like ordering 'chips' in McDonalds especially when being served by a manager!

I always ask for chips and say medium instead of regular. That's what they are after all.

admiralofthefleet · 31-01-2008 10:49PM

they should be called beer tokens

Karoma · 31-01-2008 10:52PM

Yay! This topic again. I could never get tired of it.

Fremen wrote: »

Shut up, that's why!

Bless you, sir.

As for 'crips' ("chrisps"?!) - metathesis is a long-running tradition for English speakers and I think you'll find it's not just Dublin speakers that make the mistake. It does tend to be city folk that do it more often though. Mistakes repeated often enough become habit become the norm?

Gordon · 31-01-2008 10:53PM

Clytus · 31-01-2008 11:00PM

So basically you can stick the letter S onto the end of the word Euro.

other abuses of the English language include "Windas"= Windows, "Thrun"= Thrown,"runnin"= running "cuekin"= cooking,"froot"= fruit

I really must be in foul form!!

dsmythy · 31-01-2008 11:05PM

Clytus wrote: »

So basically you can stick the letter S onto the end of the word Euro.

other abuses of the English language include "Windas"= Windows, "Thrun"= Thrown,"runnin"= running "cuekin"= cooking,"froot"= fruit

I really must be in foul form!!

Or a bit posh. Let people speak how they like.

kizzyr · 31-01-2008 11:23PM

Clytus wrote: »

So basically you can stick the letter S onto the end of the word Euro.

other abuses of the English language include "Windas"= Windows, "Thrun"= Thrown,"runnin"= running "cuekin"= cooking,"froot"= fruit

I really must be in foul form!!

As you'll have seen from my post you're not the only one. I like your list, you did (shame on you) forget these two " buke" for "book" and "luke" for "look".

kizzyr · 31-01-2008 11:34PM

dsmythy wrote: »

Or a bit posh. Let people speak how they like.

Whats wrong with being a bit posh?

Its "Euro" not "Euros"

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