Kazakhstan spells "BANK" wrong on its new currency
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061018/...hstan_money_dc

ALMATY (Reuters) - The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word "bank" on its new notes, officials said on Wednesday.


The bank plans to put the misprinted notes -- worth 2,000 tenge ($15) and 5,000-tenge -- into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

The move has drawn the ire of the Central Asian state's politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether.

"The mistake ... is not just a spelling problem -- it has political undertones," a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.

"We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language."

Language is a contentious issue in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhs were encouraged to speak Russian, which is written in Cyrillic script, during Soviet times but since independence in 1991, the country has seen the Kazakh language as a national symbol.

The Kazakh word for bank is the Cyrillic form of "bank." On the new note, the word was written with an alternate Kazakh form of the letter K, which has a slightly different pronunciation.

I bet Borat we'll be on this like green on a dollar :)

I bet Borat we'll be on this like green on a dollar :)

I think it would be cheaper to add the new word to the Kazakh dictionary :)

Fucking retarded.

lmao, how the hell do you make a typo on your country's currency? idiots...

Borat rocks.

well seeing how most people nowadays can't spell "your" and "you're" correctly depending on the situation, this isn't much of a stretch LOL

though one is bad syntax and the other is bad grammar

:1orglaugh .. that guy cracks me up

Shit happens; even on the least expected instances..

jagsemash

Haha Borat is going to be on this like flies on a pile of horse shit. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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your write. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I guess someone's currently looking for a new job now.

Borat had these idiots # all along!

borat is sure going to rip on this one :1orglaugh

*insert another sigwhore borat comment here*

yay, my post count went up one

congrats to all the winners :thumbsup

Frank misspelled his GFY name and noone sees a problem...

Frank isn't a country's currency, no one gives a fuck.

I don't think that people there can read it, so where's the problem

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