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From: mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Currency symbols (was someone hates to tell us something)
Message-ID: <831@inset.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 04:31:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 04:31:24 1986
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Reply-To: mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan)
Organization: The Instruction Set Ltd., London, UK.
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In article <879@kuling.UUCP> christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson) writes:
>The Swedish currency, the crown (krona) and <untransletable, but equivalent to
>cent and pence> ( {o"}re), doesn't really have a symbol (and doesn't need one
>either.) In Sweden three crowns fifty ore is written 3:50, and three crowns 3:-

I thought that ore translated as ``ear'': a crown with ears has a rather
appealing image to me - makes the idea of the currency come alive!
-- 
Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd.
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