That's just my 2-1/2 cent opinion

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[nq:1]Hi I often read in newsgroups at the end of a text: That's just my 2-1/2 cent opinion. Or: that's ... ;-) Patrick Lecordier "I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." Duke EllingtonWebsites:( http://w

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[nq:2]Hi I often read in newsgroups at the end of ... around for some time the expression might as well comefrom[/nq]
[nq:1]any euro(pean) user since the euro has cents. Or has it not?[/nq]
Usually called eurocent. m.

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[nq:2]any euro(pean) user since the euro has cents. Or has it not?[/nq]
[nq:1]Usually called eurocent.[/nq]
Not where I live, where we deal with them every day.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

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[nq:1]Not where I live, where we deal with them every day. They deal with them every day in other countries too, and call them eurocent. m.[/nq]

[nq:2] Not where I live, where we deal with them every day.[/nq]
[nq:1]They deal with them every day in other countries too, and call them eurocent. m.<< "Euro Cent" is etched on ... Lecordier -- "I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." Duke Ellington Websites:( / ) ( http://perso.wanadoo.f

A certain Patrick Lecordier, of uk.culture.language.english, writes:
[nq:1]<< "Euro Cent" is etched on the coins, but in France we do not say cent. Neither do we say ... still in use. I guess people in other countries probably have different ways of designating the eurocent when they shop.[/nq]
In Italy, "centesimi".

But when I write on a Usenet newsgroup, I use "eurocent", to ma

A certain Patrick Lecordier, of uk.culture.language.english, writes:
[nq:1]With the euro around for some time the expression might as well come from any euro(pean) user since the euro has cents.[/nq]
I *do* use it, sometimes.

Just my 2 eurocents

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[nq:1]"Euro Cent" is etched on the coins, but in France we do not say cent. Neither do we say eurocent ... designating the eurocent when they shop. Anyway, if you have too much eurocents, please send them to me immediately. ;-)[/nq]
My understanding is that the Euro Committee gave explicit permission for France to call the things "centimes" because of the poten

[nq:2] Not where I live, where we deal with them every day.[/nq]
[nq:1]They deal with them every day in other countries too, and call them eurocent.[/nq]
In neither Ireland (the only English-speaking country using the euro) nor Germany is the coin referred to as a "eurocent" - also the inscription on the coin says explicitly "cent".

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

[nq:2] They deal with them every day in other countries too, and call them eurocent.[/nq]
[nq:1]In neither Ireland (the only English-speaking country using the euro) nor Germany is the coin referred to as a "eurocent" ... closely at the "small print", I've been more worried about the much larger number on that side of teh coin.[/nq]
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan