[Ads-l] Antedating of "Metre / Meter"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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metre / meter (OED 1797)

1794 Analytical Review Jan. 116 (Google Books)

The tenth of the unit, being a parallelograpm of 100 metres by 10.

Fred Shapiro


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