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[–] Bronco1676@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Meter is seemingly the american spelling, it's also spelled meter in many european countries e.g. germany, netherlands

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[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Metr in Czech.

We just have to be special. :-D

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Nah, it's like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It's метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

But well he translated the rest of his post into English

Why would we use the American spelling if they don’t like the unit

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