>It depends on what you are talking about.  In "original" English a meter
>is like a gauge or a display whereas a metre is 1000 mm long.  However, in
>other European languages a metre is a meter is 100 cm, and a meter is
>called something else depending on the language.


Wonderful.

I now understand the proponents of the metric system.

It really IS a cleaner, clearer, far easier system than Imperial!

Why, it's so well designed, and so simple, that it only requires one term 
to describe different lengths!

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       --Jammer, 1992
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