Hi Terry

>FYI For "the British Pound" you can just say "Sterling".
At least in germany this would probably interpreted as a kind of silver <g>.
And to be honest, I've known about the British Pound to called Pound Sterling,
but I've no idea on how the other "currency pounds" might be called.

>FYI the only other "pound" I know of is the Maltese pound (and I'm not sure if they're in the € now), which was the only currency I knew of that cost more than Sterling, at c. £1 Malt. = c. £2 Brit last time I visited.
Malta uses the Maltese Lira [I had to look it up, since I wasn't sure anymore...]

>The Irish pound "Punt" when divorced from Sterling first dropped to c. £0.95 but later, with Ireland's EU prosperity, actual rose above it.
And on currency sheet's seen here, the notation usually is "Irish Pound" - I've no idea if "Punt" would be the correct/better idiom used on a canadian board <g>. A pure german version would be "Irisches Pfund", so I see other peoples idea on the correct usage in "english" [used for the language spoken in quite a few countries].

OTOH, I do know the autralians went from pound to dollars a few years ago, but AFAIK Egypt and Lebanon still use a[nother] pound, and that Cyprus at least used to have a pound. I am not too sure about Gibraltar today, but a few years ago we had to mentally convert prices there as well. There might be other remnants still using a "pound".

regards

thomas