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Old 23-01-2012, 05:03 PM posted to uk.d-i-y,uk.legal,uk.rec.gardening
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Default Metal theft. The biters bit

On Jan 23, 1:05*pm, charles wrote:
In article ,
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:33:24 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:
in my school days (1950s), the Meter was a unit of length, too.

I can see that if you attended an American or
American-funded/influenced school, but the metre was standard spelling
in the UK back then.


no - it was very British - but I suppose our physics text books might have
been American - but I doubt it since they dealt with the cgs system (which
the American had probably never hear of)


I thought it went back to anglo-saxon times no fogeting centre,
honour.
I heaqrd that jeffersons original document of teh declaration of
independence
had teh spelliong honour, but it was later changed to honor.


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