Guys..this has to be the dumbest thread we've had on here yet. WHO
CARES?!?! It's a langauge difference, simple as that. Meter,
metre...doesn't matter...BOTH of them are better than feet and inches!
At 12:34 2008-09-30, STANLEY DOORE wrote:
The use of meter would be nice to use for a gauge and metre for
metric length or distance. However, Americans have a problem using
further and farther correctly, so accommodating the metre-meter
difference would be a major problem in usage.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Pat Naughtin
To: <mailto:[email protected]>U.S. Metric Association
Cc: <mailto:[email protected]>U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:54 PM
Subject: [USMA:41774] RE: metre or meter
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
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Bill Potts
<http://wfpconsulting.com/>WFP Consulting
Roseville, CA
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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>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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