Re: How much is that in real money?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:39:40 -0700, Hatunen
<hatunen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:23:01 -0700, John Kane
<jrkrideau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 25, 8:11 am, "CDB" <bellema...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lars wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:07:21 +0200, nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:

Most Europeans would not even know
of the existence of Canadian dollars,

Oh, we do. But most of us don't see them much and don't
know it's value.

When we do happen to see one we are so surprised it has a
picture of the Queen of England on it!

We come under the heading All her other Realms and Territories, or
something. These days, the Queen is found only on the twenty (value:
almost RM$20.00). The rest of the ones that I get to see ($5, 10, 50,
100) commemorate dead prime ministers.

No, Canada is explicitly mentioned at least in Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_of_the_Canadian_Sovereign

That site says her title is

"Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United
Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head
of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith".

But the monarchy's actual website,
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page4676.asp, says it's

"Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and
Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the
Faith".

That is her UK title not her Canadian title.

I'm puzzled by why the official web site says "Northern Ireland"
when NI is supposed to be part of the UK.

Read that as a single territory: "the United Kingdom (of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland)", rather than as two
territories "United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Northern
Ireland".

It would mean the same if written as "the United Kingdom of
Northern Ireland and Great Britain". This form has been used
just once to my knowledge -- in a letter to the Times (of
London) in the 1970s signed by the undersigned.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
.

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