Maybe I should have said "it is commonly standard to put the unit after the quantity". My point is that this format is ubiquitous and that English language form

Maybe I should have said "it is commonly standard to put the unit after the quantity". My point is that this format is ubiquitous and that English language formatting of currency values is the outlier. It is not even internally consistent, as this rule only holds for the symbol, not for the ISO code, the full name or for speech.