Editing Language and the euro (section)

===French===
In French, the singular is {{lang|fr|un euro}} (masculine). The official plural is the same as the regular plural {{lang|fr|euros}}.
The {{lang|fr|[[Académie française]]|italic=no}}, which is regarded as an authority for the French language in France, stated this clearly,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/questions.html#euro |title=Langue française-Questions de langue |publisher=Academie-francaise.fr |access-date=25 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514131914/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/questions.html#euro |archive-date=14 May 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> following French legislation in this regard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/cogeter/2-12-97-euro.htm |title=Commission générale de terminologie et de néologie |publisher=Culture.gouv.fr |access-date=25 April 2011}}</ref>

In France, the word {{lang|fr|[[centime]]}} is far more common than {{lang|fr|cent}} and is recommended by the {{lang|fr|Académie française|italic=no}}.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.academie-francaise.fr/actualites/actu_2001.asp#centime | title = Communiqués de presse | access-date = 22 March 2009 | author=Académie française | author-link = Académie française | quote = L’Académie française à l’unanimité, dans sa séance du jeudi 13 décembre 2001, rappelle que la centième partie de l’euro doit se dire et s’écrire centime. }}</ref> {{lang|fr|Centime}} used to be a hundredth of the [[French franc]] which is now called {{lang|fr|centime de franc}}. The word {{lang|fr|cent}} (plural {{lang|fr|cents}}, both pronounced {{IPA|fr|sɛnt|}} to avoid the confusion with {{lang|fr|cent}} (100) pronounced {{IPA|fr|sɑ̃|}}) is the official term to be used in the French-language version of community legislation.<ref name="Spellings_in_Official_Languages"/> Before its use in relation to the euro, the word "cent" (pronounced as in English, {{IPA|[sɛnt]}}) was best known to European Francophones as a hundredth of a dollar (U.S., Canadian, etc.)

French-speaking Belgians use {{lang|fr|cent}} more often than {{lang|fr|centime}} because{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} {{lang|fr|centime}} coins for the Belgian franc (worth, on 1 January 1999 about three U.S. cents) rarely circulated (only a 50 centime coin was still being issued) and because{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} of the influence of Dutch and English, which are more commonly used in Belgium than in France as a result of [[Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium|Belgium's language diversity]].

'''Slang terms''': the euro is often referred to as ''balle'', meaning ''ball'' or ''bullet'' in English. This use of the word ''balle'' can be traced back to the 17th century.