Duane Bozarth wrote:
"Red CloudŽ" wrote:
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Actually it does have 3 M's! Do a google for ammmeter and see for yourself. I
know it looks funny, but that's the way it is spelled.
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Don't know where you found it, but that's certainly not accepted.
Actually, I just did. There were only 380(!) hits for the
misspelling...that's pretty good, actually considering the millions of
correct spellings.
Let's see..."ampmeter" -- 9,080 hits w/ the "Did you mean 'amp meter'?"
message.
"ammeter" -- 203,000 (I'd thought it would be much higher)
Is there any English word w/ three consecutive letters in proper
spelling--sure can't think of one.
There are lots of English conventions and that is
certainly one--no more that 2 of the same
consonant in a row. Since you can possibly
pronounce it, and written language is just a
graphic translation of speech, three consonants in
a row doesn't make sense. Similarly, "u" has to
follow a "q" in English. Modern use does allow
spelling of some foreign words without the "u".
Don't really know why it is allowed with Arabic
since the alphabets don't have a one-to-one
relationship any more than Cyrillic does to
English. On the other hand, advertisers spell
anything anyway that they want, but those spelling
remain substandard or unacceptable.
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