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Euro or Euros, Cent or Cents?

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  • #32
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Ruu wrote: »
    Who cares, sure we will be using a single global currency soon anyway, the worldo! :)

    Heh. I've been saying worldo for years. Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to change currencies at all any more?* Travelling would be so much simpler.




    *
    Except when you go to the UK of course.


  • #33
    bobcar61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭bobcar61


    Working in a shop I get a fair amount of English people in. You often hear them asking their partner for 20 euros. It annoys me so much as it's not right, or doesn't sound right anyways. I always say 15 euro and 36 cents for example,always leave them in the singular.


  • #34
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    professore wrote: »
    I have 4 Sheeps.
    :confused:


  • #35
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    professore wrote: »
    I have 4 Sheeps.

    Hopefully not all in the same bed
    ...or you might be getting a ram too! :D


  • #36
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Ruu wrote: »
    Who cares, sure we will be using a single global currency soon anyway, the worldo! :)

    Is that the same as the Bartero?


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  • #37
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Biggins wrote: »
    Hopefully not all in the same bed
    ...or you might be getting a ram too! :D

    There could be more than 4 but that's as high as he has to count before he falls asleep.


  • #38
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    The real issue is where to put the Euro symbol, €30 or 30€

    Aesthetically I think the former looks better, but then again, the other way corresponds with how it's said (amount, then currency eg thirty euro).

    Someone in europe needs to standardise this. I see different things in various different countries.


  • #39
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Blisterman wrote: »
    The real issue is where to put the Euro symbol, €30 or 30€

    Aesthetically I think the former looks better, but then again, the other way corresponds with how it's said (amount, then currency eg thirty euro).

    Someone in europe needs to standardise this. I see different things in various different countries.


    This is true - in France last week they had the € at the end as in 400€.
    I found it strange.
    Is there an official position for the Euro sign?


  • #40
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    whatever the official line is, euros sounds common!


  • #41
    Soby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭Soby


    Hate people who fecking says moneys aswell..


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  • #42
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    Dosh and coppers....


    only way to puts it hommie.


  • #43
    gaeilgegrinds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭gaeilgegrinds


    Euro and Cent, cannot be the other as words are pluralised in different ways in different countries so those words are pluralised by leaving them be.


  • #44
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    What about Apple so?
    I have 4 Apples.
    I have 4 Apple.
    It doesn't sound right to me.
    RATM wrote: »
    I can think of loads of exceptions to that. What about eagles, oranges, ewes, iguanas, etc?

    Yeah you're right. Heard it a few years ago but it's obviously not true.

    That's why I said AFAIK.

    Researched it there and it seems there is not actual reason for it, just the ECB deemed it so.


  • #45
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    Euros and cents. Trust Irish, this will change here quite rapidly if and when the UK joins the Euro.

    I hate, repeat HATE, when Irish people talk about other currencies and don't pluralise it!! "That costs 2 dollars 95 cent."

    DIE.

    Logically, I'd put the € after the number, but in the English speaking world (British Isles and North America, anyway, can't say for anywhere else) it's customary to put the currency symbol first. Dunno why.


  • #46
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    obl wrote: »
    Euros and cents. Trust Irish, this will change here quite rapidly if and when the UK joins the Euro.

    I hate, repeat HATE, when Irish people talk about other currencies and don't pluralise it!! "That costs 2 dollars 95 cent."

    DIE.

    Logically, I'd put the € after the number, but in the English speaking world (British Isles and North America, anyway, can't say for anywhere else) it's customary to put the currency symbol first. Dunno why.

    i always say dollars and cent... kill me then ?? :o


  • #47
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatIsThePluralOfEuro/bvcvl/post.htm


  • #48
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    BastardPrince wrote: »
    well that's new! when the currency was announced it was definitely not pluralised like lira....

    The reason people think it's not supposed to be pluralised is because Charlie McCreevy, muppet that he is, misread the directive partly quoted above by Mr. Frost regarding pluralisation (or lack thereof) of the term. Consequently, RTE and various other spanners took their lead from McCreevy, and the public gormlessly followed along.

    Really, ask yourself: what kind of retard would think it's correct to utter such a phrase as "twenty cent"?
    S.I.R wrote: »
    i always say dollars and cent... kill me then ?? :o

    If only we could take the safety labels off everything, then people like you would die out naturally.


  • #49
    Leprachaun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Leprachaun


    It's 'euro' and 'cent'. Not that hard to understand really.


  • #50
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Mammy or wedges?


  • #51
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    Leprachaun wrote: »
    It's 'euro' and 'cent'. Not that hard to understand really.

    You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.


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  • #52
    Leprachaun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Leprachaun


    FruitLover wrote: »
    You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

    I'm right and......I'm telling on you! :(


  • #53
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    FruitLover wrote: »
    If only we could take the safety labels off everything, then people like you would die out naturally.
    FruitLover wrote: »
    You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

    I think you need to 'knock one out' mate.
    Introduce yourself to Palmela and her 5 sisters.

    And quick.


  • #54
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I use both Euro and Euros, and both cent and cents.
    I honestly could not care less which are right and which are wrong. Anyone who's sad enough to correct me will be met with a cold icy glare.


  • #55
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    FruitLover wrote: »
    The reason people think it's not supposed to be pluralised is because Charlie McCreevy, muppet that he is, misread the directive partly quoted above by Mr. Frost regarding pluralisation (or lack thereof) of the term. Consequently, RTE and various other spanners took their lead from McCreevy, and the public gormlessly followed along.
    That's pretty much what happened.

    Whatever about changing the way I use the english language based on a directive from Brussels, I'm damned if I'm going to change the way I use the english language based on a misinterpretation of a directive from Brussels purely because the euro and cent brigade couldn't be bothered to read it for themselves.


  • #56
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Always use the singular for both.


  • #57
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Look, the same people who call "Tesco" "Tesco's" will call it "Euros".


    Does that not tell it all??


    Go figure.


  • #58
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,105 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Whatever about adding the 's' to euro, I don't think it's pleasing to the ear to add
    the 's' to cent. It's a little difficult too. It comes out sounding like sense rather
    than cents

    I say euro and cent.


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