Its "Euro" not "Euros"

Sugar Drunk · 01-02-2008 10:53AM

people who say 'euros' are the same annoying f**kers that say 'ATM Machine'. what did you think the M stood for ??!

Dyr · 01-02-2008 10:55AM

the plural of euro is aeros

and I've no idea why someone would need to use the plural of penis on a regular basis. YOREMA being the exception of course

funk-you · 01-02-2008 11:02AM

Right in the Queens hometown where it's meant to be the Queens English:

Yeah bruv, facking mint innit. Safe.
Yes my friend, it is great is it not? Goodbye.

For f\cks sake, it's just the way people speak. Next you'll be giving out to the chinese for not using letters as you know them. Or actually give out about Irish.

"how dare the alphabet not have a K! humph, bloody peasants!"

-Funk

funk-you · 01-02-2008 11:04AM

cozmik wrote: »

Saying zero makes you sound like a twat.

QFT

-Funk

FunkyChicken · 01-02-2008 11:06AM

Blisterman wrote: »

Isn't "oh" just another word for zero, nought etc?

What I don't get is, how in continetal europe, they always seem to right prices as
19€99c
It looks stupid.

I hate the way european countries use a comma instead of a decimal place when quoting prices

Why do they do that anyway?

kizzyr · 01-02-2008 11:25AM

cozmik wrote: »

Saying zero makes you sound like a twat.

LOL, guess I'll just have to deal with that as my cross in life.:)

robinph · 01-02-2008 11:31AM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

No. He is correct. Euro was supposed to be the plural of Euro as each language pluaralises in a different way. But for some reason Ireland was the only country that bothered informing their citizens of this. I always say Euro anyway.

When they said that the plural of the "euro" was to be "euro" they were only reffering to the written word when using in any Europe wide financial government documents. It was nothing to do with how each countries citizens were supposed to be saying the word.

But you are correct that Ireland was the only country to miss read that document about the euros usage and then wrongly convince their citizens to say it incorrectly. Every other country follows their languages normal pluralisation rules, most of which stick an "s" or similar on the end.

Steve · 01-02-2008 11:31AM

FunkyChicken wrote: »

I hate the way european countries use a comma instead of a decimal place when quoting prices

Why do they do that anyway?

It was the world standard before the English decided to do their own thing - as with driving on the right.

Extraplus · 01-02-2008 11:32AM

FunkyChicken wrote: »

I hate the way european countries use a comma instead of a decimal place when quoting prices

Why do they do that anyway?

It was to make things easier with the Euro changeover, it made prices look more like what people were used to.

Before the Euro a beer might have cost you a couple of thousand pesatas or a couple of million lira etc.

Overheal · 01-02-2008 11:38AM

Its convention. Maybe its not proper to say Euros but we all do so should it not just be accepted? Thats the whole idea behind language: this is why Google is a verb in the dictionary!

Also: ALUMINUM.

Ha.

EDIT: also reminded of a huge drunken row me and my brother had over "6th". I pronounce it "sicth" - he is fiercely adamant it is pronounced "sicsthd" or some bull like that...

Blisterman · 01-02-2008 12:25PM

stevec wrote: »

It was the world standard before the English decided to do their own thing - as with driving on the right.

Well our way makes sense.

A comma in the middle of a sentance. A full stop to end a sentance.
Likewise, a comma in the middle of the number. A full stop to indicate, the decimal.

slumped · 01-02-2008 01:08PM

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 "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!!:(

Pity this thing does not quote titles!

"Its Euro nor Euros" - original thread title

Where in actual fact it should read

"It's Euro, not Euros."

I'm an arse.

Rob_l · 01-02-2008 01:18PM

The title of this thread is based on a fallacy as mike65 pointed out in post 13.

So I would just like to state the OP does not like Cake

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 01-02-2008 01:23PM

Sugar Drunk wrote: »

people who say 'euros' are the same annoying f**kers that say 'ATM Machine'. what did you think the M stood for ??!

On a similar note, UCD spent a fortune rebranding themselves as UCD Dublin

doesn't send the best message out about the brightness of the institution

BaconZombie · 01-02-2008 01:25PM

I 2nd that, I still call it "Quid" like I did before the change over....,

WhiteWashMan wrote: »

who gives a fcuks?

BaconZombie · 01-02-2008 01:27PM

TrogDor strikes again......

funk-you wrote: »

Right in the Queens hometown where it's meant to be the Queens English:

Yeah bruv, facking mint innit. Safe.
Yes my friend, it is great is it not? Goodbye.

For f\cks sake, it's just the way people speak. Next you'll be giving out to the chinese for not using letters as you know them. Or actually give out about Irish.

"how dare the alphabet not have a K! humph, BURNING peasants!"

-Funk

FlutterinBantam · 01-02-2008 03:31PM

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 "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!!:(

Spot on there Clytus.. The Dub, when talking just opens the gob and lets it go
They are too lazy to use their tongues to pronounce anything usually more than on syllable.

hence. breakfasts= breakfastes
Flaherty= Farety
Corporation=Copporation
Phibsboro= Fizzboro

ETc etc etc

You will note that the correct pronounciation of these words requires a certain effort of co-ordination of tongue and lips-obviously a bridge way too far for the typical Doob.

blah · 01-02-2008 03:45PM

slumped wrote: »

Pity this thing does not quote titles!

"Its Euro nor Euros" - original thread title

Where in actual fact it should read

"It's Euro, not Euros."

I'm an arse.

Even though the thread title should be

"It's Euros, not Euro."

imo

I prefer the convention to "use the natural plurals".

Charlie McCreevey's not going to tell me how to pluralise Euro, we're not speaking French or German, we're speaking English, where you add an 's' at the end of a plural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_issues_concerning_the_euro#In_Ireland

Edit:actually, according to that webpage, in France it's Euros.

FlutterinBantam · 01-02-2008 04:12PM

Good man good man.

So.. you apply the English idiom to all languages do you???

Well done well done..so you call gateaux= Gattex..you call "Italian" Eyetalian" but you don't call Italy ....Eyetaly.

Good man.. make it up as you go along,ignore the grammatical rules of the different languages.. ok ..what ever floats your boat I suppose.

dsmythy · 01-02-2008 04:26PM

kizzyr wrote: »

Whats wrong with being a bit posh?

Nothing. It's those posh supremacists that annoy me.

Jay P · 01-02-2008 04:29PM

Ah Jesus, I hate "euros" Similarly, its "cent" not "cents" Its all noncents really

Blisterman · 01-02-2008 04:46PM

Well cents was a word in the english language before the Euro was introduced. Euros wasn't.

blah · 01-02-2008 04:47PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Good man good man.

So.. you apply the English idiom to all languages do you???

Well done well done..so you call gateaux= Gattex..you call "Italian" Eyetalian" but you don't call Italy ....Eyetaly.

Good man.. make it up as you go along,ignore the grammatical rules of the different languages.. ok ..what ever floats your boat I suppose.

What language does the unit of currency "Euro" come from then?

pickarooney · 01-02-2008 05:18PM

Greek, where it's "Evro".

I'd like to systematically murder all people who say sikth instead of sixth.

Whatever about saying Euro, like Yen as opposed to Euros, like Shekels, anyone who believes 'cent' is a plural should be neutered.

FlutterinBantam · 01-02-2008 05:23PM

No idea Baldwin ,no idea at all.

But I'll tell you what I do know.

I regard anyone who refers to 2 Euro as" 2 Euros",anyone who used to call 2 Pounds ,"2 Pound", who says "done" instead of "did" who says "seen" instead of "saw" who refers to cancer as " the cancer" as what Baldwin??

Lowlifes Baldwin,thats right lowlifes.

Now they might be fine upstanding citizens ,but those words plant them straight into the category of what Baldwin??

Lowlifes, thats what they are to me Baldwin.

blah · 01-02-2008 05:28PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

No idea Baldwin ,no idea at all.

Oh well fair enough, so it's more of a general hatred.

I does be respectin that. And countin the Euros shrapnel in me pocket.

Mr. Incognito · 01-02-2008 06:03PM

Plural of Octopus.

Octopodes.

Call the grammer police quick. There's been a spill.

FlutterinBantam · 01-02-2008 06:05PM

Nowt personal Baldwin,nowt at all.

Just ,well, you know yourself, some people let themselves down the minute they open their mouths.

Branded ,tagged, and categorised as soon as words stagger from their mouths like a badly fitting cheap suit,and just as damning .

never wrong Baldwin, never wrong.

randylonghorn · 01-02-2008 07:21PM

Oh ffs ... as WWM said, who tf cares?!

I can be as pedantic as the next person, sometimes because too much sloppy grammar and spelling genuinely annoys me, especially in written documents; sometimes just out of mischief, tbh (see example of the latter earlier in this thread

).

But this particular debate is about as silly as it gets.

Seriously, if someone says to you to-night: "Hi, you have just won a prize for being a wonderful person, here's five hundred euros!!" are you going to say "NO!! I won't take it! You should have said euro! EURO!!!!11!"

johnnyskeleton · 02-02-2008 05:47AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

What about those people who always say 'foot' when it should be 'feet'?

"He must have been six foot six"

"It was a twenty foot drop"

aaaarrrrrrrrrgggggg......

I have to restrain myself during moments like these!

Six-foot becomes an adjective if you are describing something i.e. six-foot drop.

Six feet is completely different; it is six times the plural of the noun i.e. six feet of linen.

Its "Euro" not "Euros"

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