Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)

Yeah, you're right... but you hardly ever see "liter" or "litre" except when
you buy large quantities of soda or other liquid.  Most of the time, you see
"mL" or just "L"

You said that stuff about consistency far better than I did.  ^_^

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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
>
> I wouldn't say that.  Every liquid product I buy comes clearly
> marked with its volume in both fluid ounces and milliliters, and
> many of them are exact in the metric rather than the English units.
> Of these, the one-liter (33.8 floz) bottles of drinking water often have
> "1 LITER" spelled out on them.
>
> My personal usage is not completely consistent.  I generally prefer
> the "-ter" forms, but a small number of words wobble back and forth
> between "-ter" and "-tre" depending on my mood, chief among them
> "theatre" and "mitre".  However, I always write the SI units as
> "liter" and "meter".
>
> -Mark
>
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