In article >, JimLane > wrote:
>Phred wrote:
>> In article >, "Bob Myers"
> > wrote:
>>>"Dog3" > wrote in message
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>>>>"Curandera" > wrote in
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>>>>
>>>>>And Singapore, Canada, Taiwan, Barbados, the Caymans, Fiji, Jamaica,
>>>>>the Bahamas, Liberia, Trinidad, Belize, Zimbabwe, and Bermuda, I
>>>>>think.
>>>>
>>>>Unless the West Indies have changed currency in the past 10 years one has
>>>>to convert American $. If I made an error, I apologize.
>>>
>>>The point was, though, that there are quite a few places on Earth
>>>that call their currency "dollars" (not necessarily 1:1 equivalent to
>>>U.S. dollars, mind you, but they still use the name) and/or use the
>>>"$" symbol for references to their own currency. About the only
>>>one I've seen that specifically distinguishes their dollar in everyday
>>>use is Taiwan, where the New Taiwan Dollar is most often indicated
>>>by "NT$" (probably because of their close ties to the U.S., and a
>>>fairly strong American presence at any given time).
>>
>> If you want ot refer unambiguously to world currencies, you can always
>> use the standard abbreviations, one official(?) source of which is at:
>>
>> http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...elds/2158.html
>
>Where ever you see "D" as the last letter, that is "dollar." Likewise,
>there is a high probability that they use the "$" symbol as well.

Yeah. But I think you'll find it's only the hoi polloi who use the
"$". A quick squiz at the list I gave indicates it's not part of the
any of the "official" abbreviations for >140 currencies world wide.
(Which is *not* to say it's not part of the official designation of a
currency unit *within* the country of use -- it's just not part of the
accepted *abbreviations* when speaking of world currencies.)

>Interestingly, when Mexico was switching from the old peso to the new,
>they used NP$ to differentiate the nuevo (new) pesos. Now, it is just $.

Like Microsoft's "NT" for "New Technology". Now it's just "XP" for
nothing much at all. ;-)

Cheers, Phred.

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