----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Ben Monroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> - the yen currency began in 1871 And written as such since 1871 in French accord to my Dictionnaire historique de la langue française which writes « est l'adaptation (1871) d'un mot japonais dont la transcription normale serait èn, lui-même du chinois yüan « rond, cercle » et aussi « dollar » (en tant que monnaie ronde). » > - there are many foreign languages that have common words with the same > spelling as "en", so there was a need to avoid this. French and Spanish > has an "en" meaning "inside (something)" True even though French could use an accent (as in sample above) to disambiguate (en is a single nasal sound, èn is not). I'm not sure that the French and Spanish had much influence on the transcription of Japanese (English, Dutch or Portuguese maybe). > and Dutch has an "en" meaning > "and then". [I really do not know. I am just repeating what it says > there.] In Dutch « en » simply means « and » (or « both .... and »); there is no more a connation of « then » than in English. P. Andries
