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Nitpick: the dollar symbol comes BEFORE the number. $49 and not 49$ Are there currencies that write it at the end instead?
by mahaganapati 6y ago
Nitpick: the dollar symbol comes BEFORE the number. $49 and not 49$
Are there currencies that write it at the end instead?
- hamza_nouali 6y agoOh, I didn't know that. Thank you!
- krick 6y agoIt isn't really about currencies, it's about languages: pretty much every language other than English uses "49 €" form. So I guess, writing all currency signs before the number is pretty commonplace now, but that's probably because americans are notoriously, well, american-centric.
- rglullis 6y agoHum... pretty sure that the Europeans are the exception in those. Majority of American and Asian countries use the currency symbol before the amount, Africans are split.
- Kuinox 6y agoYes, we write 49€. It's how you spell it, fourty nine euro. Actually, it depends where, but most of the country put the sign at the end, like most notations.
- kickling 6y ago50:- or 50 kr is how 50 kronor is written in sweden (and probably all of scandinavia).
- cocoapuffs7 6y agoAlthough in juxtaposition from the English pronunciation, it has an advantage: "If it was written as 1,200.00$ it would be easier to forge it to become, for example, 91,200.00$ by appending a single digit in front."
- 101008 6y agoIt is the same if it goes before. $100 can become $1000 or whatever. It is in fact this the reason checks have the quantity written in letters too, and also a dash that occupies the rest of the space.
- whatl3y 6y agoIt’s not the same if you complete the amount with cents. 100.00$ can become 9100.00$ much easier than $100.00. I explicitly and carefully write out my tip and total with a dollar sign and cents and sometimes circle the total in an attempt to prevent the temptation for anyone to alter the amount (I’ve heard this happening to a could of friends back in college at restaurants and bars).