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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm

The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (4 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) (3 children)

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.

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