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1366 points aleksi | 3 comments | 14 Oct 24 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. secondcoming ◴[14 Oct 24 16:54 UTC] No.41839356[source]▶
Where has the practice of putting the $ behind the value come from? I see it happening to £ too. I'm irrationally annoyed by this.
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2. drchaos ◴[14 Oct 24 17:09 UTC] No.41839529[source]▶
It's standard for Euro amounts and before that for many (most?) European currencies.
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3. swores ◴[14 Oct 24 19:07 UTC] No.41840777[source]▶
The majority of Eurozone countries do put the numbers before the €, but it's not standard across the continent, each country has their own standard and some of them do have the euro sign first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_the_euro#Writte...

(To save a click: Netherlands plus Dutch-speaking half of Belgium, Austria, Cyprus, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, and Turkey are the Eurozone countries which write €1 - which is also the official way to write it in English. Edit: oops, Turkey should be with England in that it's not a Eurozone country, they have their own Turkish lira, but in their language Euro amounts should be written €10, even though lira amounts are written 10TL.)