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[-] Bronco1676@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

Meter is seemingly the american spelling, it's also spelled meter in many european countries e.g. germany, netherlands

[-] tslnox@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Metr in Czech.

We just have to be special. :-D

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, it's like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It's метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

But well he translated the rest of his post into English

Why would we use the American spelling if they don’t like the unit

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