On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:41:38PM +0100, Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
I don't know about the creators of the survey, but
to tell you the
truth, I had never expected that people don't know the ISO code of
their own currency. It's something I assume that they never expected
it either, how common or uncommon it might be.
My theory is that it's related to international travel. I'm sure that
the main place I've seen ISO currency codes is in lists of exchange
rates (see
http://www.xe.com/ucc/). Editors who never travel
internationally are less likely to need to check exchange rates.
- Carl