For what it's worth, in America, you spell it meter; in England, you spell
it metre.
Jill
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From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 5:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Handwritten EURO sign (off topic?)
SI units already have
On 16/08/2003 21:51, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Note that USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand are members,
even if they often can use legally or most usually the British
system (miles, weight pounds, gallons, degrees Fahrenheit...)
USA and UK do use this alternative system, except that the US gallon
Peter Kirk scripsit:
USA and UK do use this alternative system, except that the US gallon is
different from the British one (exactly 20% smaller I think),
For the record, it's true that the Imperial gallon has 20 fluid ounces
and the Fred Flintstone gallon only 16, *but* it's also true that
John Cowan remarked...
Of course it's
the *pint* (8 pints to a gallon) that is 16 or 20 fluid ounces.
Which explains to me why a pint of bitter in England seems quite so
enormous... well for a small Yank... ;-)
Rick
At 18:01 -0400 2003-08-17, John Cowan wrote:
Yup. Hence also the Brit's complaint about the metric system: a liter
of beer is too much, half a liter isn't enough, but a pint, ah, that's
just right. The Imperial pint is .57 liters, whereas the Flintstone one
is only .47 liters.
A half-litre can
On 17/08/2003 15:16, Michael Everson wrote:
At 18:01 -0400 2003-08-17, John Cowan wrote:
Yup. Hence also the Brit's complaint about the metric system: a liter
of beer is too much, half a liter isn't enough, but a pint, ah, that's
just right. The Imperial pint is .57 liters, whereas the
On 2003.08.14, 00:52, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the dollar sign can be used for currencies other than the USD,
even for some which name is not even dollar, then I suppose there is
a theoreitical possiblity that it may be used as a symbol of euro cent
(though I
On 2003.08.14, 05:24, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin scripsit:
Some habits are indeed language dependant, but some others are just
tradition (some of it imposed as logic and correct decades ago, like
compulsive caseless singular for SI units in speech), and
From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Handwritten EURO sign (off topic?)
On 2003.08.14, 05:24, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin scripsit:
Some habits are indeed language
Not pausing to wonder why on earth this list [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
currently discussing my country's currencies, only to wonder if anyone
here knows whether Ireland is the only EU country which has to use two -
in Belfast we use Pounds Sterling (£), and in Dublin euro ().
mg
ps.
To
At 11:47 +0100 2003-08-15, Marion Gunn wrote:
Not pausing to wonder why on earth this list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is currently discussing my
country's currencies, only to wonder if anyone
here knows whether Ireland is the only EU
country which has to use two - in Belfast we use
Pounds Sterling
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Subject: Re: Handwritten EURO sign (off topic?)
Not pausing to wonder why on earth this list [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
currently discussing my country's currencies, only to wonder if anyone
here knows whether Ireland is the only EU country which has to use two -
in Belfast we use Pounds Sterling
On 15/08/2003 04:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's more, in the Isle of Man (which is situated between Britain and
Ireland) they accept pretty much any currency under the sun. You can pay for
things in a mixture of pounds sterling, euro, US dollars, whatever. They
don't care. Shops will just
From: Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Agreed. But it's not a member or part of the EU, or of the UK, like
the
Channel Islands - which makes them all convenient tax havens. It is
self-governing, with the oldest Parliament in the world I understand.
I thought it was in Iceland...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
What's more, in the Isle of Man (which is situated between Britain and
Ireland) they accept pretty much any currency under the sun. You can pay for
things in a mixture of pounds sterling, euro, US dollars, whatever. They
don't care. Shops will just take anything,
On 14/08/2003 09:54, Michael Everson wrote:
Lepton in Greek was accepted from the beginning.
Leptó pl leptá.
The same word as the original widow's mite (Mark 12:42). Probably worth
even less now!
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De: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
After all the euro is a common currency and its figures should be
written in a common way.
Why?
Very good question. Multilingual countries like Belgium or Canada already
were or are
James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
Anto'nio == Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anto'nio (Let alone the validity of things
Anto'nio like k, c etc.)
I'm sure things like m, k, M and even G will come into use,
though I expect more will use them in front of the digits.
I certainly use
At 00:52 +0100 2003-08-14, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
Using the cent sign is mostly US specific and the symbol is not
recognized as such in most European countries, so the cent sign is
bound directly to the dollar.
If the dollar sign can be used for currencies other than the USD,
Kenneth == Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
terra is not far behind (especially if disk sizes continue to grow).
Kenneth Does that refer to physical disk sizes growing to global
Kenneth scale, or disk contents sufficiently capacious to encompass
Kenneth the entire store of terran
At 00:24 -0400 2003-08-14, John Cowan wrote:
There are surely other countries that use $ as their currency symbol
even though their currency is not called dollar.
Such as Mexico, where $ means peso.
In Portugal, cêntimo (officialy and in practice). It seems that the
changelessness of this
Anto'nio == Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anto'nio (Let alone the validity of things
Anto'nio like k, c etc.)
I'm sure things like m, k, M and even G will come into use,
though I expect more will use them in front of the digits.
I certainly use m$, k$ et al, and regulary
Jim Cloos asked
(B
(B Or a haiku?
(B
(BAs long as we're off topic... A Haiku. Picking up on your 7 syllables, as
(Bquoted by Ken, how about:
(B
(BUnfortunately
(BTerra is not far behind
(Bthe eight ball of God
(B
(BH... Well, that certainly lacks a seasonal
James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
I'm sure things like m, k, M and even G will come into use,
though I expect more will use them in front of the digits.
Perhaps, but that would be incorrect, methinks: Using SI preffixes
implies that one is adopting the said unit (the euro, in this case) as
if it
On 14/08/2003 09:50, Michael Everson wrote:
In Ireland of course when we used pence we wrote 2p and said two pee.
And we still do in the UK!
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Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
On 2003.08.06, 11:12, Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the placement of the currency unit symbol or multiple is language
dependant, and the same local practices are used with the
euro, as the
one used for pre-euro currencies.
You mean that
After all the euro is a common currency and its figures should be
written in a common way.
Why?
Why, too? This is absolutely not required by the european directives,
which has already stated different names for the subdivision for each
language, and accepted distinct plural forms, as well
On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:54 PM, Stefan Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
Anto'nio == Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anto'nio (Let alone the validity of things
Anto'nio like k, c etc.)
I'm sure things like m, k, M and even
Stefan == Stefan Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stefan m and m$ would be millieuros and millidollars. How could
Stefan anyone need anything like that?
On this side of the pond, fuel prices per gallon are quoted in m$;
I presume they quote m$ per Litre in CA, though it has been long
enough
Michael Everson schreef:
You are lucky not having to put up with bad English like five
euro
and six cent, living in the Netherlands and speaking Dutch as you
do.
Funny. In our language, the euro behaves just as the guilder always
did, that is, the very same as what you call bad English. We
On 2003.08.05, 16:55, Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any symbol that looks remotely like a C with two (nearly) horizontal
cross-strokes, appearing before a numeric value,
Actually, most people here use it *after* the number. Which is only
logical, if we follow speech, common sence and the
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