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Re: center/centre
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:06:25 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@USWEST.saynotospamNET
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Christopher Lannan wrote:
> In lugnet.town, Sanjay D'Souza writes:
> Cheers
> >
> > Sanjay
> >
> > --
> > Millennium City @ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jsds
> >
> > (1) The American spelling of Centre is Center which obviously is totally
> > wrong ;-)
Not necessarily. The city of St. Paul, MN named its convention center
"RiverCentre". To me it looks stupdi;-)
> Do Europeans spell it "centre" only when it's a place? Or is the dot in the
> middle of a circle the "centre" as well? Isn't it "metre" instead of "meter"
> in Europe as well? And if so, is it the same for a unit of measurement as for
> a gauge, or a measuring instrument?
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> Just wondering.
>
> P.S.- usually I just hit the reply button and let fly, but today I
> experimented with changing the newsgroup field to off-topic.fun. I'm doing
> this with a web browser. Did I do right?
Yes:-)
-John
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> Chris
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| John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:38330ABE.FD672E...est.net... (...) Aww...come on John ;-) The word "tremor" would look pretty stupid if it was spelt "termor", likewise the word "tremendous" would looks equally stupid if spelt (...) (27 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| In lugnet.town, Sanjay D'Souza writes: Cheers (...) Do Europeans spell it "centre" only when it's a place? Or is the dot in the middle of a circle the "centre" as well? Isn't it "metre" instead of "meter" in Europe as well? And if so, is it the same (...) (27 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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