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The Anarchyz on 31 December 2008
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Seneque said:
Soleron said:
How can France call our currency something different to what we call it? That doesn't make any sense.

But, yes, 1 GBP = 1 EUR for all practical purposes. Buy our stuff, please, it'll save our economy. We should join the Euro...
Diomedes1976 said:
Yes its bizarre but for all the latin-speaking countries of Europe (France,Spain ,Portugal,Italy ,Rumania) the Pound is the Sterling Livre and London is Londres ....thats the way it is !

lol. ^_^

That's not bizarre at all. The UK/GB currency is extremely old, and should actually really be called the "Sterling" (or officially "Pound Sterling") by the British themselves.

The pound is a weight unit, that is translated by 'livre' in France. Historically, 240 pennies (coins) of the Sterling currency would weighed 1 pound, hence a pound of Sterling.

The Latin countries still use the historical (and technically correct) denomination.

Now, if you want to be exact, call us 'Français', and not 'French' (not 'Fwançais' : 'Français', it's a R). Good luck. :p

 

Exactly, and the germans "Deutsche" (pronounced "doisch"), the brazilians "brasileiros", italians "italianos", mexicans "mexicanos" (pronounced "mejicanos"), the japanese "日本人" (pronounced Nihon-jin), the russians"Русские" (pronounced "Russkie"), etc.

That's why in every language we have a way to say them, imagine if all cities, currencies, etc. we had to learn saying it in the original language...