C.5 Comment on spelling
This standard uses the spellings "meter," "liter," and "deka." The
alternative spellings "metre," "litre," and "deca," may also be used.
--IEEE/ASTM SI 10T-2002, American National Standard of
Use of the International System of Units (SI): The Modern Metric System, p.
48
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 13:48
Subject: [USMA:36612] Re: the preferred system
> People are very attached to the form of their language that they learn
when
> young. Americans and Germans will remain disinclined to use the
Anglo/Franco
> spelling that has been taught, for example, in many former colonies of
> Britain and France.
>
> The USMA will be wise not to wage a futile war against a nation's
language.
> Trying to enforce a nonphonetic spelling merely for the sake of uniformity
> or out of respect for an alien committee will not help SI to gain
acceptance
> in the USA.
>
> A digression: the -er spellings were promoted by Noah Webster in the 19th
> century and are more modern than the -re spellings that they replace. We
> make exceptions for certain words, such as "acre."
>
> > From: Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:11:36 +0000
> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [USMA:36611] Re: the preferred system
> >
> >> I would like to add here that all spellings are considered acceptable.
It
> >> is only in the use of the >sysmbols where uniformity is required.
> > The question is NOT of acceptability; BUT that of respecting the force
that
> > went behind Le Systeme Internationale d'Unites. It is the cohence of
> > following of all 'Units & Symbols' that I urge/ argue for be followed -
by
> > every country irrespective of its dilect, so far as the spellings in SI
> > usage are concered.
> >>> Meter, metre; liter, litre...it doesn't matter. As long as the SI is
> >> used.
> > This shall leave the options open for NOT respecting the dictums of
> > 'Convention du Metre', I feel.
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> >
> >> From: "Linda D. Bergeron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [USMA:36610] Re: the preferred system
> >> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:23:27 -0400
> >>
> >> I would like to add here that all spellings are considered acceptable.
It
> >> is only in the use of the sysmbols where uniformity is required.
> >>
> >> Meter, metre; liter, litre...it doesn't matter. As long as the SI is
used.
> >>
> >> Linda Bergeron
> >>
> >> ----Original Message Follows----
> >> From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [USMA:36608] Re: the preferred system
> >> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:26:49 +0000
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> America; and let the think ask themselves: why is that America insists
in
> >>> using the 'old American spellings' for Litre & Metre rather than fall
in
> >>> line with Le Systeme International d'Unites.
> >>
> >> It's not just the US that spells litre and metre in a "local" manner.
> >> eg. Germany spell litre and metre in the same way America does.
> >>
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