Luke Surl Comics

Discussion (9) ¬

1. Charles

   March 11, 2012 at 8:52 pm | # | Reply

   Hmm,… Google Calculator doesn’t get this one.
2. philpem

   March 11, 2012 at 9:06 pm | # | Reply

   Wolfram Alpha gets it:

   http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wavelength+of+25GHz

   The photon wavelength of a wave with a frequency of 25GHz is 1.199cm (or 1.2cm if you round up).
3. 
   MrGBH

   March 12, 2012 at 9:51 pm | # | Reply

   Is it spelt centimeter? Or is it centimetre?

   • 
     Luke

     March 13, 2012 at 12:52 am | # | Reply

     Depends which side of the Atlantic you hail from. Despite being from the ‘centimetre’ side, I’m going to say this was *deliberate* and definitely was not *my fifth spelling error this week*.

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       MrGBH

       March 13, 2012 at 8:08 am | #

       So she’s an American and that’s your ingenious way of showing her accent in written form?
     • Me

       April 5, 2012 at 11:03 pm | #

       Right. Americans are the ones with accents. I believe you.
       But because we made up the spelling, we get to write the r’s wherever we say they are. Although, at least in some British accents, the sound for the letter r doesn’t have an r sound in it at all, which seems a little off.
   • Jimi

     March 13, 2012 at 12:56 am | # | Reply

     Metre = unit of length. Meter = measuring device.
   • 
     danineteen

     March 13, 2012 at 1:56 am | # | Reply

     I was under the impression that both spellings were correct, and that it also applied to theatre/theater, centre/center, etc. However, I personally spell it -tre. It just looks correct. (Also, spellcheck seems to think -ter is incorrect.)
4. 
   Squishy Cube

   March 14, 2012 at 3:36 pm | # | Reply

   Like others have mentioned both _are_ correct — somewhere. the -re suffix is used in British English, -er in American English.