Well, in Lichtenstein they had about two dozens referenda until it became the last European country to allow women to vote in 1984....After the winning referendum there was never a new referendum to restrict women voting, by the way. That supports Bald Eagle's argument: The government was not contented with a very clear result they had against women voting in the 1920 so they repeated the referendum about each 4 years...

Now to the main question (grin): There is a dissenting minority who insists upon the spelling 'Zent' (invariably spoken 'tsent') but officially and by a very large margin it is 'Cent'. The pronounciation is less clear. About half (in my peer group) say 'sent' (exactly as the English word), the other half say 'tsent' (same as 'sent', basically, but you just start with the same phoneme which ends e.g. 'cats'). I say 'sent' but my bet is on 'tsent' to win on the long run for a simple reason: most prices that involve 'cents' end on either '...zig' (tsick) or '...zehn'. Try saying a couple of times '...tsick sent' in succession and then compare the ease when saying 'tsick tsent'. (Perhaps you have to grow up speaking German to even considering using a word as 'ease' when pronouncing 'ts' sound at the beginning of words).

Wolfgang