EUSSR is trying to force Bulgarian spelling

[Ambiorix]

from UK Independence Party http://www.ukip.org/ukip/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=249&Itemid=67

Euro 'Newspeak'           
Sunday, 14 October 2007
How far will the European Union go in trying to impose its will on the whole of Europe? It is even trying to force Bulgarians to change the spelling of their language.

The intellectuals in Brussels think the word "euro" should be spelled the same way in all European languages. Bulgaria, though, does not use the Roman alphabet but the Cyrillic, which means that "euro" comes out as "evro".

This has driven the bureaucrats into a frenzy. Spelling "euro" differently threatens the credibility of the EU in the Balkans and could delay the accession of other countries, they say. They seem to have forgotten that when Bulgaria joined the Union, "evro" appeared in the accession treaty.

The furious Bulgarians – told by Brussels that the natural desire to use their own language was "regrettable" – refused to sign an agreement permitting closer ties with Montenegro until the row was put on one side. It might well arise again over the so-called "Reform Treaty".

George Orwell saw it coming. In his novel 1984, "Newspeak" was "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year."

One of the first countries to adopt Euro "Newspeak" was Ireland. When the euro currency was introduced, the government officially instructed its citizens not to add an "s" to the plural: 10 euros had to be "10 euro".