While doing my customary weekly trip to Lowe's, I noticed that as usual the SI units on packaging were marked only in the Spanish or French portions, but I also noticed that they commonly used litre and metre instead of the accepted US spellings.
Is this common outside of the UK and other Commonwealth nations to just randomly adopt the re instead of the er :)? Between the frequent use of either spelling and all those annoying comma's they're using to separate decimal centimeters now I'm all the way confused. 38,8cm just is weird to me, although measuring it as 388mm would be just as weird I think. I've also noticed that some products spell out the measurement rather than use the abbreviation. I'm sure it's legal to do both and I think it's nice that some products spell out liter and such because otherwise people would have no idea what the L stood for. Mike -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
