"Phred" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, JimLane
> > wrote:
>>Phred wrote:
>>> In article >, "Bob Myers"
>> > wrote:
>>>>"Dog3" > wrote in message
6.121...
>>>>>"Curandera" > wrote in
r.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>>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.

And here I was, thinking the "XP" stood for "eXtra Patience"...

Silly me.



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