Metal theft. The biters bit
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:33:24 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:
in my school days (1950s), the Meter was a unit of length, too.
I can see that if you attended an American or
American-funded/influenced school, but the metre was standard spelling
in the UK back then.
no - it was very British - but I suppose our physics text books might have
been American - but I doubt it since they dealt with the cgs system (which
the American had probably never hear of)
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