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alt textComic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, °C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".

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[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What's even worse is that when they use SI units they don't even spell them right. They write meters whereas the rest of the world writes metres

[–] VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, in Dutch it's meter (plural: meters) too

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] lnee@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

spelling is hard why make it harder by spelling it "metres"

[–] aquasteel@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To help distinguish metre, as in length, from a meter, as in volt-meter.

[–] lnee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Thats why we call it a volt-meter, or amp-meter or a parking-meter.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

They are one of the founding members of the Metre Convention

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well how would I know if they teach me it's meters and not metres, hmm?