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Ok. I googled and it said ~1.9. I seem to remember it being the late 90s so that's my bad memory. Funny, we also call it t'euro in Yorkshire too!
by benj111 3y ago
Ok. I googled and it said ~1.9.
I seem to remember it being the late 90s so that's my bad memory.
Funny, we also call it t'euro in Yorkshire too!
- pasc1878 3y agoIt was 1st January 1999 (well sort of the banks didn't open until 3rd) The conversion rate was taken at end of business on the day before and all DEM, FRF etc trades had to be converted over the next two days.
- CRConrad 3y agoYeah, sure, about two DM to the Euro. 20 years, I meant, not 30. Betcha it doesn't mean the same in Yorkshire as in German, though: "Teuro" comes from Ger. "Teuer", expensive. (Cognate of Eng. "dear", as in "paid dearly".) Because wages halved, numerically, while many claimed prices were about the same in Euro after the change as they'd been in DM before it. Or, if not the same, still way above half, as they "should" have been for wage/price-parity to remain the same.