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Saturday July 31, 2004

01:28 PM

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No, this is not a post on which one of those would win a fight between the two, should they get into one :-)

This post is about a doubt I have, and that keeps confusing more and more each time I ask somebody about it :-)

Is it "kilometer" or "kilometre"?

According to a friend of mine, the first is tipically american and the second one european...

However, Britannica seems to fail to recognize kilometre :-|

Can anyone *please* help me with this?

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Googling around... (Score:1)

by ambs (3914)

square kilometer conversion (European spelling: square kilometre) at http://www.metric-conversions.org/area/square-kilometer-conversion.htm [metric-conversions.org]
A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) at http://www.fact-index.com/k/ki/kilometre.html [fact-index.com]
Britanica is a strange beast... (Score:2)

by ajt (2546)

Briticanica is a strange beast and not the best source for spelling differences between English and American. The book started out in the UK with accepted English spellings (for the day - they do change), but was sold to an American publisher. For a number of years it was therefore policy to standarise spellings on American rather than English norms, but it was not done in one go, and it was a slow process, so spellings vary depending upon the edition you read. I had a conversation with one of their editors

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The correct answer, of course, (Score:1)

by VSarkiss (704)

is 0.621371192 miles [google.com]. M-I-L-E-S. ;-)