Good point.
Meter could be the name for a device while metre could be a unit of measure.
Nice distinction.
Stan Doore
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From: "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:10 AM
Subject: [USMA:38958] Metre vs meter RE: Re: Increasing use of non US SI
spellings
Sirs:
From my own point of view, I use a "meter" to measure voltage, but I
measure out a "metre" of >cloth.
If United States mean to adopt 'metric system' even in the remote future,
why have THIS ambiguity in mind, when Le Systeme Internationale d'Unites -
the SI Metric system of units, support and advocate ONLY the use of METRE
for length unit 'metre'?
Meter is only a measuring instrument to measure 'certain' quantities.
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From: "STANLEY DOORE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:38955] Re: Increasing use of non US SI spellings
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:15:23 -0400
The comma is a soft separator in grammar while the dot is a hard separator.
That's why the US usage is preferable. A space is also a hard separator
and does not provide continuity in a number.
Stan Doore
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From: Martin Vlietstra
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:46 PM
Subject: [USMA:38953] Re: Increasing use of non US SI spellings
Should one write "metre" or "meter" - The French write "metre" and the
Germans "meter". I believe that the Spanish write "metro" (though I am
open to correction). In short, there is no correct way to write
"metre"/"meter" which is why there is a universal symbol "m" to denote it.
In this case the Brits appear to have adopted the French spelling and the
Americans the German spelling, in much the same way as the word
"colour"/"color" is spelt differently on either side of the "pond". >From
my own point of view, I use a "meter" to measure voltage, but I measure
out a "metre" of cloth.
The SI specification is quite clear about the decimal separator - either
a dot or a comma can be used, but one should be consistent within a
particular document. In fact, the SI specification explicitly uses dots in
the English language version and commas in the French language version.
The specification goes on to say that one should use spaces as separators
for groups of three digits.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bill Hooper
Sent: 28 June 2007 18:40
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:38950] Re: Increasing use of non US SI spellings
On 2007 Jun 28 , at 11:25 AM, Mike Millet wrote:
... 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 :)?
There may be as many people (world wide) who use the -re spelling of
metre and litre as there are who use the -er spelling. Yes, it would be
nice if everyone spelled it the same way but surely anyone reading it
would understand it with either spelling.
,,, 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,
Again, there may be as many people who use the comma for a decimal point
as there are who use the period. It can be confusing -- does 1,325 mean
"one and 325 thousandths" or does it mean "one thousand three hundred
twenty-five"? Use of the comma as a decimal point is different from what
you (and I) are familiar with but there is nothing weird about it.
Again, I agree that it would be better if everyone did it the same way,
but they don't. A well informed person needs to be aware of the different
uses and be prepared to understand either one (or be prepared to ask which
is meant when, as in my example above, it really is ambiguous.
... spell out liter and such because otherwise people would have no idea
what the L stood for.
Spelling out a unit is always an option when the intended audience may
be unfamiliar with the correct symbols, but I find it hard to believe that
there are many people out there who would not realize that "L" stands for
"litres"; and those who don't would easily be able to learn it -- as any
well infrmed individual would want to do.
Bill Hooper
1810 mm tall
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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