Russell McMahon wrote:

>>>> To put things even worse, the pupils in a 9th grade public school here
>>>> in Sweden does not know how many cm (centimeters) is a m (meter).

> 2.    There is no such thing as a centimeter * in Sweden :-) - only in 
> The US of A where they think that even the names of official 
> international units can be respelt **  different like coz they don't 
> like the way they are really spelt**.

> *    Real life:        metre
>       USAism:        meter

Ah, the good old "we're the world" attitude from the good old Commonwealth
times :)

Thank the Entity for Wikipedia <http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter> which
helps me easily show that there /is/ such a thing as a meter in Sweden.

FWIW, it German it's also "Meter". I think the spelling "metre" is more
latin-based, and possibly came to the British Isles by way of France.
Germanic languages seem to use more the "meter" version.

Gerhard

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