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minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agobut why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
minus-squareCurlyMoustache@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoRest of the world: meters, cm, mm The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoMetres* Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter) Metre is a unit of measurement
minus-squareBronco1676@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-211 months agohttps://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-up0·11 months agoMetr in Czech. We just have to be special. :-D
minus-squarecrispy_kilt@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoNah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.
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but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm
The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
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.