On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:07:10PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:25:47PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote:
> > Magnus Danielson <cfmd@swipnet.se> writes:
>
> > > It's only in American English which 1 billion means 1000 milions,
> > > so there is a real diffrence in which Debian can't overbridge. The
> > > only possibility would be to have Americans learn propper English
> > > (OK, flamebate, but so what) ;)
>
> > Magnus, I think you're absolutely right. But it's probably a lost
> > cause. Just one Amurkin's opinion...
>
> Met[er] is pronounced Mee-tur, not Meet-ray, so Meter is of course
> correct. Metre comes from French, but we are speaking English, so
> staying close to French spellings isn't all that important.
>
[snip]
Wrong. Much of English comes from French, German and Latin. Metre is
correct (ask any Englishman). *Americans* are the only ones who spell
things "the other way".
But yes, it doesn't really matter.
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