On Thursday 09 October 2008 13:04:21 Ziser, Jesse wrote: > Ha! Nice suggestion about dropping the "e" entirely: "metr". Aren't there > some Eastern European languages that spell it that way?
There are. Polish and Czech both use that spelling, as do Welsh and Breton. The slide show about sizes, if I remember right, is in Slovak and uses that spelling, but Wiktionary says that Slovak spells it "meter". As the slide show mixed up some orders of magnitude and called one "fotometr", I wouldn't rely on it for spelling. Pierre
