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Old Dec 3, 2011 | 8:09 am
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Originally Posted by NickB
Originally Posted by hsmall
just as public opinion has successfully resisted those tiresome people in Brussels when they told us that the plural of Euro was Euro
mmm... 'Brussels' has never told 'us' how to spell 'euro' in the plural. What 'Brussels' have done is to adopt rules for EU legal texts so as to ensure consistency in EU official publications. 'Brussels' has never told anybody how to spell Euro in the plural form generally , not even in official legal texts other than EU legal texts themselves.

But, hey, what let facts stand in the way of yet another uninformed Euro-myth?
Exactly. Some tiresome non-English speakers in Brussels misunderstanding the correct English rules of pluralisation and imposing it in legal texts in the name of totally unnecessary linguistic standardisation.

Pity some people leap to the defence of the EU right or wrong as if it were their religion
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