12 AUGUST 1995, Page 26

Euro-boffins

Sir: If the monetary union boffins are so 'downcast by the fact that no one can agree even on the name for the wretched Euro- coin due to be minted by 2003' (Politics, 5 August), then how about 'Euro-Dolour' (or 'Euro-Douleur' for francophones and 'Euro-Dolor' for yankophones)?

James Douglas

Fourways, The Leys, Witney, Oxon