atw: Re: use of the ? symbol
- From: "Erica Ferrigno" <EFerrigno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:26:01 +1000
Drats! My instincts were correct!
Thanks for all your help Reg.
Happy Friday everyone!
"Reginald Hardman"
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17/06/2004 06:18 PM
Please respond to
austechwriter
Erica,
Yes, euro is not normally capitalised, nor pluralised in English. See
here:
http://www.irisa.fr/euro/00219-en.pdf=20
for the spelling in different languages. As usual, we can see every
variant of orthography in use. In this case, there is practically no
chance for confusion, no matter what variant you use, so you're pretty
safe.
I often hear Americans referring to it as "the euro dollar"(-:
Reg
...
> Reg, we ended up playing it safe and used "...sales of approximately 8
> billion Euro...".
>=20
> Now I'm wondering whether I was right to capitalise the word Euro...
...
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