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Some companies spell the metric units with "-re" instead of "-er"; that
is, litre, metre (she said, sneakinly introducing a semicolon!).
And some countries require that if technical documentation includes
English units, it must also specify the metric equivalent, with the
metric form coming first and the English in parens:
1.6 kilometers (1 mile).
Marguerite
(who has no idea what the metric equivalents for more obscure English
units such as a rod or an ell might be)
