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Garden Office Building? What do you recommend?
"Stephen Kellett" wrote in message
... In message , Tim Ward writes out what it means? Or is this a deliberate political statement about the status of Northern Ireland? What? I'm trying to work out why someone should invent "UKP" in preference to using the ISO standard "GBP". That was the only explanation I could come up with, Northern Ireland being in UK but not in GB, I thought that perhaps someone who wanted to make a political statement about Northern Ireland being part of the UK would object to using "GBP". Can you think of any other reason for inventing "UKP"? Good grief Tim, you are over-analysing way too much. I've seen UKP used before, it hasn't been invented to make a political stand. But someone must have invented it for some reason. It makes no sense to go round inventing currency codes when there are already perfectly good standard ones - write an invented private one of your own on a bank document, for example, and it won't work. I guess people do rather less of this in everyday life now that cash cards have replaced Eurocheques, so not everybody carries the leaflet with the codes in their wallet any more, but the things are still in common enough usage that one can be expected to know the code for one's own currency! So, despite the existence of "GBP" which has unambiguous meaning worldwide on any documents written in any language, someone goes and invents "UKP", which on the day they invented it meant nothing to anybody other than themselves. Why?? -- Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear Brett Ward Ltd - www.brettward.co.uk Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb Cambridge City Councillor |
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