Issue 20521

Summary:	Consistent spelling mistake
Product:	Internationalization	Reporter:	holdfast <scott.watson1>
Component:	www	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 1.1	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
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Description holdfast 2003-09-30 23:51:24 UTC

In any place in OOO where units of measurement are used the metric ones are
consistently spelt wrongly.
For example in the Options for TextDocument/General, Spreadsheet/General,
presentation/general and Drawing/General the options for units of length include
Millimeter, Centimeter, Meter and Kilometer.  The correct spelling for these  is
Millimetre, Centimetre, Metre and Kilometre.

Comment 1 okhayat 2003-10-01 01:10:47 UTC

This is just American English used. Just like center (American) and
centre (British). So, it's not a wrong spelling at all.
To make sure, you can use the dictionary at www.onelook.com, which
would lookup the words in almost 1000+ other online dictionaries in
different fields.

Comment 2 holdfast 2003-10-01 23:32:04 UTC

It may be normal usage in the USA but that does not make it correct.
It should be changed.

Comment 3 ooomod 2004-04-10 14:18:45 UTC

native-lang is not the appropiate place for this issue. Reassigning to the
Localization project (l10n).