In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:

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I was wondering that myself:

Meter: device for measuring something e.g. volts
Met foreign unit of length

in my school days (1950s), the Meter was a unit of length, too. We changed
to the French spelling later - perhaps to make it easier for us to join the
EEC? or was it when Concord became Concorde?

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