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Metal theft. The biters bit
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wrote: 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) -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16 |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
On 23/01/2012 13:05, charles wrote:
In , wrote: 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) No, it was American! I too attended school in the fifties and grew up with millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres - including the correct pronunciation of the last one! -- Moving things in still pictures |
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Metal theft. The biters bit
On Jan 23, 1:05*pm, charles wrote:
In article , * wrote: 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. -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16 |
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