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minus-squareCurlyMoustache@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·2年前Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
minus-squarenyctre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2年前Pretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2年前Metres* Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter) Metre is a unit of measurement
minus-squareBronco1676@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-22年前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
minus-squaretslnox@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2年前Metr in Czech. We just have to be special. :-D
minus-squarecrispy_kilt@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2年前Nah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2年前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
minus-squareTacoNissan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2年前Hm see, we don’t have aspic, and I don’t know what a lark is. But I definitely use bananas for scale
Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm
The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
Pretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho
Metres*
Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)
Metre is a unit of measurement
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
Metr in Czech.
We just have to be special. :-D
Nah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.
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
Hm see, we don’t have aspic, and I don’t know what a lark is. But I definitely use bananas for scale