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I have just come back from a trip to DL land, and  am horrified to discover
they spell metres the Yanke way (and they drive on the same wrong side of
the road :-)

Andy
'jnt



On 7 August 2011 06:42, Dave Sergeant <dave@davesergeant.com> wrote:

> On 6 Aug 2011 at 22:31, Alan Melia wrote:
>
> > .....and anyway the Yanks dont know what metres are they even spell it
> > wrongly
> >
>
> All the athletics events articles use 'metres' as they were started by
> UK authors and it seems to have stuck, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_metres. There was a conflict when we
> started the 60 meter one that it clashed so was changed to 'meters'...
>
> Since we seem to be in agreement, please do visit the article talk page
> and add your comments there.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
>
>

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<div>I have just come back from a trip to DL land, and=A0 am horrified to d=
iscover they spell metres the Yanke way (and they drive on the same wrong s=
ide of the road :-)</div>
<div>=A0</div>
<div>Andy</div>
<div>&#39;jnt</div>
<div><br><br>=A0</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 7 August 2011 06:42, Dave Sergeant <span dir=
=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:dave@davesergeant.com">dave@davesergeant.com=
</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex=
; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=3D"gmail_quote">
<div class=3D"im">On 6 Aug 2011 at 22:31, Alan Melia wrote:<br><br>&gt; ...=
..and anyway the Yanks dont know what metres are they even spell it<br>&gt;=
 wrongly<br>&gt;<br><br></div>All the athletics events articles use &#39;me=
tres&#39; as they were started by<br>
UK authors and it seems to have stuck, see<br><a href=3D"http://en.wikipedi=
a.org/wiki/60_metres" target=3D"_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_met=
res</a>. There was a conflict when we<br>started the 60 meter one that it c=
lashed so was changed to &#39;meters&#39;...<br>
<br>Since we seem to be in agreement, please do visit the article talk page=
<br>and add your comments there.<br>
<div>
<div></div>
<div class=3D"h5"><br>73 Dave G3YMC<br><br><a href=3D"http://www.davesergea=
nt.com/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.davesergeant.com</a><br><br><br></div=
></div></blockquote></div><br>

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