Gregory's Server@fvsch @whknott @IHasWisdom yup, in practice I've only seen/heard decimeter used to give the size of rulers (double or triple decimeter : 20 or 30 cm ruler)
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 @fvsch @whknott @IHasWisdom yup, in practice I've only seen/heard decimeter used to give the size of rulers (double or triple decimeter : 20 or 30 cm ruler) 1 comment
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@Ash_Crow @whknott @IHasWisdom I also suspect that units like "centimeter" and "kilometer" are less palatable in English because they have 4 syllables, vs 3 in French. And I always suspected that three syllables is a bit of a hard limit for linguistic popularity (but I haven't checked that at all).