In the UK grammes can be spelled either way - as grammes or grams. Like programmes and programs where technically the correct UK spelling is programmes, then grammes should really be spelled grammes.
In the UK a 'meter' is a device for measuring things, odometer, parking meter etc etc. However, in (for example) the USA and Germany 'metre' has been spelled as 'meter'. This has less repercussions in Germany as 'meter' does not also mean 'measuring device' (I believe) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David King Sent: 12 January 2005 13:24 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:31879] Re: "UK measures"/FFU's Grammes is the French spelling, grams is the English spelling. David King ** Get Fast Broadband from �14.99 ** http://tinyurl.com/5y7mf Excellent web hosting and email http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=3899401 Stephen Humphreys wrote: > unit spellings such as 'gms' from grammes and 'mts' for metres are > used all over mainland europe, which -in effect- was the first fully > metric area of the world. > > I believe that only a small minority of special interest groups in > countries that are trying to adopt metric keep going on about the > strictness of how to use metric (and thus scaring off 'middle of the > roaders'). Comments like "it must be a single lower case g with > exactly one space between the number and the unit' tend to only be > heard from individuals from USA, UK and Canada - where, to most > people, metric became a DCO unit. > >
