In most cases, the American spelling of English words compared to the rest-of-the-world spelling is pretty much a wash. A matter of personal preference.
But “metre” is a hill I will die on. “Metre” and “meter” mean different things, and by spelling them both “meter”, as the Americans do, you’re just making communication worse.
Also gas which can either be petrol or natural gas.
In America “gas” is short for gasoline, which is petrol.
It’s still shit because our lazy asses do still call both types “gas”, but there is a distinction.
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The brand was cazeline, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Etymology
Originally, yes. So were aspirin, heroin, kerosene, hovercraft, linoleum, and a bunch of other common words.
I see metre and my brain says Meet-ray at best met-reh
My feet are certainly not a feet long. More like 25 cm or so. But as another commenter already said, I can measure ~175 cm using my arm’s reach easily, matchboxes are standardised as 5 cm long, the width of my palm is about 8 cm, distance from my fingertips to my elbow is around 50 cm and the distance from ground to approx. my navel is 1 meter.
Plenty of ways to get an approximate metric measurements without a ruler or measuring tape.
And it’s much easier to convert from cm or mm to m (or vice versa) than to convert between ft and inch or ft and 1/8 of an inch or whatever weird measuring standards the US-ians use.
Is it because its a parkmeter?🫣
Oh my gosh thank you I’ve been so confused. Never seen such a thing irl
If you spread your arms, the distance between your hands is roughly equivalent to your body height.
Not always, it’s called the ape index and varies between each person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape_index
I hadn’t realised that was a real thing, and not just a thing climbers joke about…
- My height/armspan: 190 cm, almost 2 meters and a little more than 2 yards
- My handspan and palm-to-fingertip: 20 cm ~= 8 inches
In what county do meters still look like that though? I see them here in the US, but back in my metric home country they certainly don’t look like iron age torture devices anymore.
This made me lol
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