Here's something from www.rupa.com about a money issue so I picked it up:
[This is the text of a letter to the editor which was printed
in the Vancouver Sun on January 10, 2002.]
I have just learned that, should they ever want to meet the
conditions for joining the single European currency, citizens
of the United Kingdom can no longer use the phrase "spending
a penny." The correct terminology is now "euronating."
-- Denis Mason, West Vancouver