Brij Bhushan Vij wrote in USMA 21457: > Just seen: Is spelling Part of SI Rules? in the Metric Today (2002 July >- August). > And, WHY NOT? If..... I may enquire! Let's face it square. US American >National Standard (ANSI) IEE/ASTM SI 10 uses the 'meter' spelling and so >does the American dictionaries and the feeding into *computers for WORD* >correcting these spelling the world over, where there is use of LENGTH >unit. > But, how does the computer relate to this word: whether or not the >'meter' used in the sentence was meant to be the measurement of any >quantity related to ANY REFERENCE like the road distances, the electrical >energy, the flow of current or the count of coins in the bank/casino OR it >is supposed to refere to the lenth unit >*METER*; unless it meant to letting the 'confusion' rein! > Systeme Internationale d'Unites (SI - is used for all languages), I >find *no reason* that different countries continue to use different >spelling for the use of length unit METRE - the one used and recommended >by CCU. I may be NO BODY, but shall suggest that Oxford or Webster's >Dictionary too follow the SI Metre to reprent the distance 'metre' for >length; moreso 'all units of SI should follow a universal system and spell >units the same way' . >Brij Bhushan Vij mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The *Conf�rence G�n�rale des Poids et Mesures* standardizes the symbols for units, but not their names. For example, in Italian we have chil�granmma and in Spanish kilograma ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Just seen: Is spelling Part of SI >Rules? in the Metric Today (2002 July - August).</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> And, WHY NOT? If..... I may >enquire! Let's face it square. US American National Standard (ANSI) >IEE/ASTM SI 10 uses the 'meter' spelling and so does the American dictionaries >and the feeding into *computers for WORD* correcting these spelling the >world over, where there is use of LENGTH unit.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> But, how does the computer relate to >this word: whether or not the 'meter' used in the sentence was meant to >be >the measurement of any quantity related to ANY REFERENCE like the road >distances, the electrical energy, the flow of current or the count of coins in >the bank/casino OR it is supposed to refere to the lenth unit</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>*METER*; unless it meant to letting the >'confusion' >rein!</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Systeme Internationale d'Unites >(SI - >is used for all languages), I find *no reason* that different countries >continue ><STRONG>to use different spelling for the use of length unit </STRONG>METRE - >the one used and recommended by CCU. I may be NO BODY, but shall suggest that >Oxford or Webster's Dictionary too follow the SI Metre to reprent the distance >'metre' for length; moreso '<EM>all units of SI should follow a universal >system >and spell units the same way'</EM></FONT><EM> <FONT face=Arial >size=2>.</FONT></EM></DIV> ><DIV><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brij Bhushan Vij <A >href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A></FONT> ></EM> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
