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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> And 'Metres' is spelled 'Meter'
> (http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html).

Maybe in America (well, probably that should be USA). Even so I
suspect you would spell 'Metres' as 'Meters' :-)

A google search finds loads of reasonably authoritative-sounding
references, eg http://www.nwml.gov.uk/consumer/si.asp -- and even some
US ones too, http://grumpy.as.arizona.edu/~gschwarz/unitstandards.html