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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Metres*

Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)

Metre is a unit of measurement

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Metr in Czech.

We just have to be special. :-D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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