I don't know, I actually love the meter spelling rather than metre. As you
said, to me it is kind of foreign to see the other spelling.
Mike
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Patrick Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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