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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, °C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".
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Nah, in Dutch it's meter (plural: meters) too
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spelling is hard why make it harder by spelling it "metres"
To help distinguish metre, as in length, from a meter, as in volt-meter.
Thats why we call it a volt-meter, or amp-meter or a parking-meter.
Well how would I know if they teach me it's meters and not metres, hmm?
They are one of the founding members of the Metre Convention