Reply to post: Re: Spelling

Only true boffins will be able to grasp Blighty's new legal definitions of the humble metre and kilogram

dajames

Re: Spelling

We are not in the USA (yet). Please spell it correctly.

"Gramme" is the original French spelling from the late 18th Century. The internationally accepted spelling for the SI unit of a thousand grams is (and has always been) "kilogram". The Oxford English Dictionary allow both the "gram" and the "gramme" spellings, but prefers "gram", as does the Weights and Measures Act of 1985.

If this offends you, you may instead refer to 772 scruples.

Kilogram certainly isn't USAian, their spelling is "two pounds" (or near enough, for some purposes).

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