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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ah, I see. It's moreso like "people from this location put currency symbols after numbers" not specifically dollar signs. Like, we put currency symbols before the numbers in American English eg "Oh, that's $12.00" or "Oh, that's €12.00." A german, writing in dutch, would write "Oh, das sind 12,00 $" or "Oh, das sind 12,00 €." Many more countries do this like Poland, the Netherlands I think, etc. It's pretty common. But like the other user said, in Quebec specifically (because French lol) since they use the canadian dollar and the canadian dollar is $ for them (though, in the US we just use CAD instead, so we'd write CAD 12.00 in america whereas a canadian would write $12.00 in canada for the same currency)