- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:19:08 +0200
On Mar 21, 2006, at 08:18, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> Unfortunately, the study Google did on Web authors showed that >> authors cannot spell the word "language", and I see no reason to >> believe that they might spell "gauge" either. Wow. > But "metre" is the correct spelling in en-AU and en-GB, and so I > think much of the world outside of the US may misspell it. According to my dictionary, meter (measuring device) does not vary in spelling. Meter (SI unit) and meter (music/poetry concept) do. So incorrect spelling is not a matter of AU or GB vs. US but a matter of having the wrong word (like 'their' and 'there' for many native speakers). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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