JanisV

So I hear both -- 175 Euros AND 175 Euro. Which is correct? Just curious and don't want to sound like a rube... The last few times we've been to Europe, it's been Denmark and the UK, so no need to ponder this momentous question.

Dr_DoGood

Technically the plural is also Euro.
<i>However</i> Euros is so commonly used as to be considered, to all intents and purposes, as also correct.

Nit pickers there will be - pedants for sure.

kybourbon

The plural is euro and it's not to be capitalized just as dollar isn't capitalized.

Padraig

While we are operating as pedants, I should tell you that another official position that is also widely ignored is that it should be written as "euro", without capitalisation.

In Ireland, we use the symbol before the number: €11.20; in most other states, it is the other way around: 11.20€. It's a residue from how we used to denote money amounts in pre-euro days.

Paul1950

Officially it is "euro." HOWEVER, there were so many complaints that the regs say that local varitions of the plural are also legitimate. Therefore, many countries do use their own plurals (most common version is "euros").

flanneruk

"Officially" is a meaningless concept here.

English doesn't recognise "official" anything: correct English is what native English-speakers say, and bloody Brussels has no more right to tell us how to speak our language than Kim Jung Il.

In Britain - where the overwhelming majority of Europe's English speakers live - the ONLY correct plural is euros. In Ireland, euro is possibly used more often as a plural than euros, so euro as a plural is just as correct in that dialect as other pieces of Irish dialect, like "rashers" for bacon or "youse" for - well, what in Liverpool and parts of New York is also "youse".

hetismij

The Netherlands also use the € sign before the figure, and Dutch people do say euros as well as euro. They also use the term euries.
Probably in the Latin language countries they don't use the s plural either as it is an uncommon plural for them.

It really doesn't matter - people will know what you mean either way.

Padraig

Given that popular sentiment in the UK is euro-sceptic as well as Eurosceptic, what its people say about the money in my pocket has no worthwhile standing.

Ye're an insular lot, yez are.

hanl

"bloody Brussels has no more right to tell us how to speak our language than Kim Jung Il"

The EU inter-institutional style guide uses "euros" so you needn't worry.

PatrickLondon

>>Given that popular sentiment in the UK is euro-sceptic as well as Eurosceptic, what its people say about the money in my pocket has no worthwhile standing<<

Then you won't mind us not trying to change ours into it to spend in your country..?

Michel_Paris

I've used 'euro' for my business dealings with europeans..also.use a comma and not a decimal point.

On a note of trivia..in Canada our french province uses comma and $ after the amount

JanisV

This is my kind of discussion - thanks! hanl, quoting the EU inter-institutional style guide made my day (I teach at the university level and am aghast that many of my students don't even know what a style guide is).

Don't know how I'd missed the no-capitalization - very important. Maybe because in guidebooks I'm reading the euro symbol? Hey - who can tell me how to find that on an American keyboard? No, wait -- don't tell me -- someone will freak out about being able to Google the answer in .07 seconds and yell at me for asking.

hanl

JanisV, I'm a translator so I'm certainly familiar with using style guides... If only those drafting the documents that I translate knew how to use them!

PatrickLondon

Janis try & + euro;

(all in one, no spaces and don't forget the semi-colon)

&euro;

wanderful

Plural of euro?

What about "euri"? Pronounced "yur-eye."

ira

Hi JV,

"Euro" is like "fish"; the plural can be "fish" or "fishes", as in "loaves and fishes".

AnselmAdorne

JanisV if you're using a Mac, it's option shift 2

€

kybourbon

The € symbol is on my laptop keyboard or you can hold the alt key and type 0128, release and the symbol will appear. If you are on a laptop without the €, you can use the Fn key with numbers lock on (use the colored numbers that are under m,j,k,l,u,i,o,7,8,9) and hold the fn + alt and type 0128. There's also ampersand and type euro method.

travelgourmet

<i>I've used 'euro' for my business dealings with europeans..also.use a comma and not a decimal point.</i>

I absolutely refuse to use commas instead of decimal points.

tod

When South Africa changed from Pounds, Shillings and Pence to the decimal system of Rands, everyone that spoke English used the plural, RANDS to start with. Now we all just say Rand.