Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 20:49 |
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:21:47PM -0700, Sarah Marie Parker-Allen wrote:
> It's "litre." That's another one that I type "re" -- but MS products with
> spellcheck always change it right away. In any case, you don't see it very
> often because we eschew metric around here (in addition to British spelling
> conventions).
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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