Mike, friends:
>.....smart to>use the spelling "meter" rather than "metre." "Metre" looks
>foreign and>multiplies the likelihood.....There has already been quite some
>discussion on this list.
While I leave at prefrences (of individuals, corporations or coun tries) who
may want to retain the old - if I may say rugged 'ideas'; blocking any
improvement to adopt Le Systeme Internatioanle d'Unites (SI - in all
languages).
My insisting is to set aside individual preferences and make METRICATION
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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 09:24:49 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[USMA:40865] Re: meterI 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 touse the spelling "meter" rather than "metre." "Metre" looks foreign
andmultiplies the likelihood that our opinion will be dismissed as alien.I
realize that many of us are obsessive-compulsive and are averse to the
USspelling. Nevertheless, my perspective as an editor in the USA is that
theFranco-British spelling hurts our cause.-- "The boy is dangerous, they all
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