• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    In most cases, the American spelling of English words compared to the rest-of-the-world spelling is pretty much a wash. A matter of personal preference.

    But “metre” is a hill I will die on. “Metre” and “meter” mean different things, and by spelling them both “meter”, as the Americans do, you’re just making communication worse.

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      Here’s my hill to die on: If two words are pronounced the same way, thay should be spelled the same was. That whole -re/-er and -le/-el this is needlessly confusing

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        The thing is, while “meter” and “metre” are pronounced the same, when you use them in compound words they’re not. Thermometer or odometer are pronounced with stress on the second syllable (the syllable immediately prior to “meter”), but kilometre and centimetre are pronounced with the stress on the third syllable (“MEtre”).

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          Kilometer has the same stressed syllable as odometer in American English.

          Easier just to distinguish pronunciation as -ometer vs -meter.

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            Easier just to distinguish pronunciation as -ometer vs -meter.

            But kilometre and thermometer both have ometer

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              Right, and in most American dialects they are pronounced the same. Whereas Centimeter is pronounced differently and does not have an “ometer”

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                We’ll continue having fun with american pronunciation on another day. Today, we’re taking care of the imperial(istic?) system

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          Ah, thank you! Good bot. For the record, I use ReVanced, so I never see ads on YouTube. I highly recommend this to everyone on Android (sorry, iOS, no easy solution for you due to Apple’s walled garden), but it is a really good idea to put a piped link in there as well.

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            Yeah ReVanced is so critical for me, because unlike most of the other alternatives it lets me hook into my YouTube account and do things like add videos to my Watch Later playlist and interact with the comments.