Nickname for the Euro

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Buck for dollars and Quid for pounds. Do we have a nickname for the Euro ? If not, does anyone have any suggestions ?

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[nq:1]Buck for dollars and Quid for pounds. Do we have a nickname for the Euro ? If not, does anyone have any suggestions ?[/nq]
The Germans call the Euro (pronounced "OY-roh") "Teuro" (pronounced "TOY-roh"); from teuer , "expensive," because prices went up after it was introduced.

Reinhold (Rey) Aman

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[nq:2]Buck for dollars and Quid for pounds. Do we have a nickname for the Euro ? If not, does anyone have any suggestions ?[/nq]
[nq:1]The Germans call the Euro (pronounced "OY-roh") "Teuro" (pronounced "TOY-roh"); from teuer , "expensive," because prices went up after it was introduced.[/nq]
*¡Uy!* And did they! The official peseta-euro exchange rate is 166-and-a-bit to one; the practical equivalence, however is 100-to-1.

Spanish slang has yet to come up with a convincing "bucks"/"quid" equivalent, although some people are using billetes* (lit. "banknotes"), while others prefer use *pavos (lit. "turkey", but also the decades-old translation of "bucks" in dubbed American movies a euro is worth just a bit more than a dollar) .
Meanwhile, people still use pelas*, the previously ubiquitous slang version of "pesetas", to refer to uncounted money (cf. "cash", "dough", "bread", etc.) and I suspect they always will. There's certainly no sign of old colloquial expressions involving the old denominations dying out people still say things like *esa mierda no vale un duro* ("it's worthless ****") as often as they used to, even though a *duro was the five-peseta coin.

Ross Howard

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[nq:2]Buck for dollars and Quid for pounds. Do we have a nickname for the Euro ? If not, does anyone have any suggestions ?[/nq]
[nq:1]The Germans call the Euro (pronounced "OY-roh") "Teuro" (pronounced "TOY-roh"); from teuer , "expensive," because prices went up after it was introduced.[/nq]
The Finnish markka was, at end, worth approximately 20 to 25 US cents. The euro is worth about $1.18. Nevertheless many prices here in Helsinki are on the basis of an equal value of the two in compliance of the concept of a psychological unit value. Prices have indeed gone up.
S&

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[nq:2]The Germans call the Euro (pronounced "OY-roh") "Teuro" (pronounced "TOY-roh"); from teuer , "expensive," because prices went up after it was introduced.[/nq]
[nq:1]The Finnish markka was, at end, worth approximately 20 to 25 US cents. The euro is worth about $1.18. Nevertheless ... value of the two in compliance of the concept of a psychological unit value. Prices have indeed gone up. S&[/nq]
This doesn't make sense to me. It seems you are saying that an item formerly priced at one Markka is now priced at one Euro? That can't be right.
More likely, an item formerly priced at four or five Marrka is now priced at one Euro. That would be an increase price, but a more understandable increase.

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[nq:1]This doesn't make sense to me. It seems you are saying that an item formerly priced at one Markka is ... or five Marrka is now priced at one Euro. That would be an increase price, but a more understandable increase.[/nq]
I recently came back from the Canary Islands. When the Eu(ch)ro was introduced all prices doubled overnight, many even trippled. If you look att all countries where the Eu(ch)ro has been introduced then you will see that prices have roughly doubled.
Incidentally, the only country where the people were asked if they wanted membership, is Sweden. The people declined.
But this is a bit off-topic. So, whilst I am off topic, I saw another recent post asking if there was a nickname for the Euro. Euch!ro sounds good to me.

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[nq:2]The Finnish markka was, at end, worth approximately 20 to ... a psychological unit value. Prices have indeed gone up. S&[/nq]
[nq:1]This doesn't make sense to me. It seems you are saying that an item formerly priced at one Markka is ... or five Marrka is now priced at one Euro. That would be an increase price, but a more understandable increase.[/nq]
For many higher priced items, you are right. But the mind set of one monetary unit somehow has carried over to the new unit, and the one markka=one euro has occurred in many low priced items, perhaps in an attempt at accounting simplification.
S&

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[nq:1]I recently came back from the Canary Islands. When the Eu(ch)ro was introduced all prices doubled overnight, many even trippled. If you look att all countries where the Eu(ch)ro has been introduced then you will see that prices have roughly doubled.[/nq]
I simply don't believe that. Prices may be rounded up during conversion causing a one-off small percentage rise in the cost of living, but the idea that items doubled or trebled in price overnight is not credible. Do you have any evidence? I've not noticed this happening in France, and my Irish colleagues have not reported anything like it.

David
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[nq:1]Buck for dollars and Quid for pounds. Do we have a nickname for the Euro ? If not, does anyone have any suggestions ?[/nq]
"The tiniest kangaroo": "It costs four bucks, three quid or two roos."

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[nq:2]I recently came back from the Canary Islands. When the ... introduced then you will see that prices have roughly doubled.[/nq]
[nq:1]I simply don't believe that. Prices may be rounded up during conversion causing a one-off small percentage rise in the ... have any evidence? I've not noticed this happening in France, and my Irish colleagues have not reported anything like it.[/nq]
I noticed that the supermarkets here kept their word not to raise prices on the introduction of the euro. Some prices were rounded up, some were rounded down. Prices on other goods generally went up, but not by a great deal. As is to be expected from the greedy drinks industry, the prices of pints and shorts increased without exception, at least in the part of Ireland I live in by less than ten percent, though, which is no more than the average yearly increase.

I singled out pint prices because the Irish tend to be very sensitive to their amounts, as I am myself, especially when either Guinness or the government messes with them. I won't mention what the ungodly Finance Minister does, with great glee and at every opportunity, to the price of cigarettes here. I should live in Spain.

Charles Riggs
Email address: chriggs>at>eircom>dot>net

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[nq:2]I simply don't believe that. Prices may be rounded up ... and my Irish colleagues have not reported anything like it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I noticed that the supermarkets here kept their word not to raise prices on the introduction of the euro. Some ... Minister does, with great glee and at every opportunity, to the price of cigarettes here. I should live in Spain.[/nq]
Not even. In one year, the average coffee went up by 67%, from 100 pesetas to 1 euro. An average packet of cigarettes (e.g. Marlboro, Camel, Chesterfield etc.) now costs ?3.50 probably much cheaper than in Ireland but pre-euro it only used to cost 350 pesetas again, a 67% increase (1 euro = 166.386 pesetas) virtually overnight.

They apparently thought nobody would notice if the numerals in the prices remained the same 350 ptas = ?3.50 but they were wrong.

Quite how they maintain that the inflation rate in euro zone has remained comfortably in single figures, I have no idea.

Ross Howard

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