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I see center and meter so much I often get confused when I'm required to write them correctly!

• alexkus 14y ago
  Having lived in the US for a few years (but now back in the UK) I get confused by many of the UK/US spelling differences. Not the -ise/-ize or colo[u]r type stuff, but things like "tyre/tire", "centre/center", "litre/liter", etc. It'll eventually sort itself out I suppose.
  • stan_rogers 14y ago
    Pity us Canadians, then. We use a pseudorandom mixture of the two. There are, apparently, rules, but they change weekly and there is something in the Statute of Westminster that forbids any discussion of them. No two Canadian English spelling dictionaries agree on anything, nor do any of the style guides. We just carry on and hope that no more than 30% of our Canadian readers think we're idiots on any given day.
    • claudius 14y ago
      Someone with one watch always knows the time, but someone with two watches is never quite sure…
• TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Bear in mind that while homographs in American English, "metre" and "meter" are different things.