Your analysis is accurate, John. When in France, I try to speak and write as the French do, in metres (although with little fluency, at best).
The French language never did prevail in what is now the USA except is limited local regions. I advocate "meter" for *all* of the USA! Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:57:36 -0700 (PDT) >From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> > ... There is not a snowball's chance > in hell that we will change a lot of "er" endings > back to "re"... ...
