I agree, but I will try to use the correct versions (at least when there is some agreed “right” way), trying to correct others by example rather than by preaching.
Regards, Bill Hooper Jacksonville, Florida, USA ========================== Make It Simple; Make It Metric! ========================== On Jul 14 , at 7:32 PM, Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks and Amen to Brian. End of discussion, one hopes. I don't give a hoot > how you pronounce km. > > HARRY WYETH > > > On 7/14/14, 1542:42, [email protected] wrote: >> This is about not losing site of the end goal. I'm all for standards. I >> want the United States to use the metric system. Simple as that. Whether >> it's a metre or meter. Whether it's kil-oh-meter or kilO-meter. IT DOES >> NOT MATTER. The key is, that people are measuring in meters and km....in >> kg and g and mg......in cm and mm.......in liters and mL. How we >> pronounce is a function of accent...American vs French vs British vs >> Japanese vs Russian. It does NOT matter. It's the meter through and >> through. It's the gram through and through. etc. >> >> Do I think the AP should allow kph? Absolutely not. Do I think people who >> say kil-ah-meter need to be corrected? Absolutely not. >> >> Should people who spell meter be corrected to metre? No more so than >> theatre, programme, colour, civilisation, etc. These are all accepted >> changes to American English. Theater, program, color, civilization. >> Again what is our goal? Our goal here isn't to change American English >> language. Our goal is what? What is it again? The USE of the metric >> system in the United States. >> >> Being a stickler on pronunciation and meter vs metre just alienate possible >> supporters of our cause. >> >> >
