RE: Euro currency sign

From: Alex Büchner (ag.buchner@ulst.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 20 1997 - 08:40:47 EDT


> Nobody wants the name "euro" and it carries entirely the wrong
> semantics, and the citizens were not consulted about it, but the
> damage has been done, and cannot easily be undone, so we're stuck with
> it. Let's just hope we can find a suitably derogatory nickname :-)

I have heard 'Eurin' suggested in the past.

... pronounced "urin"? Very good.
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