Issue 20521 - Consistent spelling mistake
Summary: Consistent spelling mistake
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Internationalization
Classification: Code
Component: www (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2003-09-30 23:51 UTC by holdfast
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:38 UTC (History)
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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).