Gavin wrote: >Spellings like metre, litre, theatre, calendre, etc. are very >rarely used in the US.
I would certainly hope that "calendre" is rarely used. There's no such word in English. (It's French.) The English word is "calendar" (with an "a") and it's the same throughout the English-speaking world. "Theatre" is very common in California, by the way -- more common, in fact, than "theater." Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
