When we members of the USMA address e-mails and letters to US publications (periodicals, web sites, and newscasts), it would be rhetorically smart to use the spelling "meter" rather than "metre." "Metre" looks foreign and multiplies the likelihood that our opinion will be dismissed as alien.
I realize that many of us are obsessive-compulsive and are averse to the US spelling. Nevertheless, my perspective as an editor in the USA is that the Franco-British spelling hurts our cause.
