Saturday, September 17, 2005

WHY, WHY, WHY!!

The Americans haven't even adopted the metric system yet and they have already corrupted it. I saw on the side of a truck the engine size quoted as "6.5 Liter". And yes they always spell it that way. Dear god why??
Everything they touch........

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Once you get past the fact they are perverting our language, the usage makes sense.
It's a simpler more consistent approach to always use the 'er' spelling rather than 're' for the same sound, in some places only.

Makes literacy a bit easier - and lets face it, they need all the help they can get.

Anonymous said...

Except in English it usually works to a rule - eg. meter is a verb and metre is a noun. The job of a metre is to meter.

There is no way to tell them apart in USAsian.