On 2008/09/17, at 2:41 PM, Bill Potts wrote:
I remember Congress rejecting metre as being somehow un-American,
which led me to create the pseudo graffiti saying, "Metre is un-
Amreican."
Bill
Bill Potts
WFP Consulting
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Dear Bill,
I tried to check the details of how and when Congress made this
decision at http://thomas.loc.gov/home/multicongress/
multicongress.html but could not find any references that included
meter and metre and spelling. Perhaps I'm not searching the right way
or am I at the wrong site for this. Can you (or anyone else) help?
Cheers,
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Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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