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From: thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <8905081532.AA02862@beaches.hub.toronto.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 15:32:59 GMT
References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1334@nusdhub.UUCP>
Organization: University of Toronto
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In article <1334@nusdhub.UUCP> rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) writes:
>Just because you (culutrally) have chosen to use a strange unit
>name for your currency dson't mean that every refrence to that
>unit refres to your curency. 

Noting that the words 'peso' and 'lira' both mean 'pound',  I'd say that
those of us whose currency is not named after a unit of weight are
the ones with the strange units.

				Yours for cultural kulturny,
-- 
		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
		    utcsri!uthub!thomson, thomson@hub.toronto.edu