Are people's £ key broken?

Kreeeee said:
How many languages do you type in?

In French it's correct to put a space before punctuation such as exclamation marks. If you speak French and English then it's easy to forget to add or remove the space when switching between the two languages.
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That was my point...
 
Just to confuse things, our American cousins have been known to call the hash symbol (#) the pound symbol, especially on a telephone keypad...
 
Rimsy said:
Pretty random question but I've noticed a lot of people will write pounds rather than just use the symbol... Eg £100 becomes 100 pounds (or in some extreme cases we get £100 pounds)
Is there a reason for this? Seems a localised oddity!
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for most people its quicker to type pounds than to navigate through 1/2 screens/keyboards when typing on thier lhone.

on a normal keyboard I can type pounds by touch far quicker than I can look down see where the pound key is and then shift press it
 
Malevolence said:
I don't know about that, but what really irks me is this new trend of people putting the pound sign after the value, i.e. 100£. It's as bad as the other retarded new trend where people put a space before any punctuation mark.
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isn't that because theyre foreigners a few countries put it after the bunber
 
One thing which really irks me, which I see on local car trading groups, is replacing a "0" with an "o".

What makes it even more infuriating is that they often use a "0" earlier in the advert, it seems to be a European thing as they also use a "." rather than a comma - for example.

2007 Peugeot 206 for sale, 28.ooo miles <- what even is this!?
 
What annoys me more is when people put the £ last, like 200£.

I can forgive it if they are from another country as various places put their currency symbol after the amount, but plenty of UK residents seem to make the same mistake too.
 
cyber69 said:
Unless your a sofa shop advertising on tv then it’s no currency at all, it’s just FIVE NINE NINE, not pounds, not anything. I should go in with five nine nine buttons.
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that's one of my pet hates. do they really think by spelling out individual numbers people don't realise the actual value? or ARE people actually that dense?
 
Spunkey said:
What annoys me more is when people put the £ last, like 200£.
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Technical is this correct, you say "that TV is two hundred pound", so the £ symbol should be after the number. You don't say "that TV is pound two hundred"
 
Rimsy said:
Pretty random question but I've noticed a lot of people will write pounds rather than just use the symbol... Eg £100 becomes 100 pounds (or in some extreme cases we get £100 pounds)
Is there a reason for this? Seems a localised oddity!
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I using a US keybaord and can't be bothered changing the keymapping.
 
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