Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

€ 10.000,000

English answer:

official and unofficial use vary

Added to glossary by Jonathan MacKerron
Jun 21, 2007 06:45
16 yrs ago
English term

€ 10.000,000

English Bus/Financial Finance (general)
is there an agreed way of putting this?
ten million euro/euros/Euro/Euros...

Thanks for your input
Change log

Jun 21, 2007 08:17: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (specific)" from "Journalism" to "Finance (general)" , "Field (write-in)" from "university speak" to "(none)"

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official and unofficial use vary

Official EU recommendation is "euro," i.e., lowercase e and no plural. However, most people tend to say "euros" aloud, and many news sources write "euros." Using capital E is definitely wrong.

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Note added at 9 mins (2007-06-21 06:54:29 GMT)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_issues_concerning_th...

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Note added at 9 mins (2007-06-21 06:54:55 GMT)
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"differ," I mean, not really "vary"
Note from asker:
thanks for your quick response
Peer comment(s):

agree Monika Silea : well, Cambridge, Oxford and Merriam-Webster's dictionaries use currency names in lower case; as for the plural, we do have *dollars*, don't we?
4 mins
agree Jack Doughty
15 mins
agree Melzie
46 mins
agree Angie Garbarino : yes euro
2 hrs
agree Elena Aleksandrova
3 hrs
agree R. Alex Jenkins
5 hrs
agree Anton Baer : I would suggest English language rules override EU-speak : 'euros', not 'euro'. (Sounds French.)
6 hrs
agree Lubosh Hanuska
6 hrs
agree Caroline Moreno : euro
8 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
11 hrs
agree Cilian O'Tuama : euros (IMO, just as a native of the only English-speaking country to have this currency) (But J, the point should be a comma!)
15 hrs
agree Pham Huu Phuoc
1 day 1 hr
agree Sophia Finos (X)
2 days 16 hrs
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