Do people pay attention to that? € should go in front, but I always put it after (because that’s how we pronounce the value in Italian) and nobody ever corrected me
I’ve never even heard that it’s supposed to go in front. Interestingly, the English Wikipedia article for the Euro does put it in front, the Italian, French and German articles does not.
Maybe it was decided to put the € in front for English, because £ and $ are in front, but to put it behind like every other measuring unit for other languages?
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Deeper down from there, I also found the information that:
Countries/languages were allowed to continue putting the € in front or behind, like where they put their currency sign before the euro was introduced.
Yes, for English, it was decided on before, because of the £ and $.
The English EU style guide says explicitly:
The euro sign is followed by the amount without space: “a sum of €30”
The same rule applies in Dutch, Irish and Maltese. In all other official EU languages the order is reversed; the amount is followed by a hard space and the euro sign: “une somme de 30 €”
I’m glad I could point you in the direction of the rabbit hole. It’s not for nothing that my name’s Alice :)
For me it was also a good read learning about how the various languages make the plural of euro. Some languages keep “euro” as the plural, some others have a plural form (which is fine), but some others have really weird shit with complex logic. I’m always fascinated by languages!
The part that throws me is the regions that use a comma instead of a decimal, although I suppose that might simply be a holdover from non-decimal currencies
Ya but ¢ goes after the number
Do people pay attention to that? € should go in front, but I always put it after (because that’s how we pronounce the value in Italian) and nobody ever corrected me
Same in English, goes in front but pronounced after
I’ve never even heard that it’s supposed to go in front. Interestingly, the English Wikipedia article for the Euro does put it in front, the Italian, French and German articles does not.
Maybe it was decided to put the € in front for English, because £ and $ are in front, but to put it behind like every other measuring unit for other languages?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro
This is the page you’re looking for Written conventions for the euro in the languages of EU member states.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Deeper down from there, I also found the information that:
Sources:
I’m glad I could point you in the direction of the rabbit hole. It’s not for nothing that my name’s Alice :)
For me it was also a good read learning about how the various languages make the plural of euro. Some languages keep “euro” as the plural, some others have a plural form (which is fine), but some others have really weird shit with complex logic. I’m always fascinated by languages!
I’m just surprised the French don’t call it Orue.
Yes and no, I guess. It’s the arbitrary, prescriptive way to write cents that USians learn in school.
It would look wrong to me if I saw a sign advertising something for ¢50 or 0.50$.
That said, I also learned to always put commas inside the quotation, “like so,” but I think that’s super dumb and I refuse to do it.
The part that throws me is the regions that use a comma instead of a decimal, although I suppose that might simply be a holdover from non-decimal currencies
logical quotation supremacy