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Posted 11/06/2020   4:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add shermae to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
From the Nordfrim website:

The coronavirus pandemic has been a key concern for many months now. An original miniature sheet now reminds us how the associated measures have changed our daily lives. Keeping a distance of at least one metre between ourselves and other people should help to reduce the spread of the disease. However, what is particularly innovative about this stamp is the material used: in an ironic allusion to the panic buying indulged in by many anxious people at the start of the lockdown, using an elaborate process, this unique mini sheet is printed on real toilet paper and made in the same sizeas a piece of toilet paper. However, the seriousness of the situation has not been forgotten: the supplement on the stamp of 2.75 Euro is to be used for a charitable cause.




Brought to you by a kid from Flushing.
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Posted 11/06/2020   5:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I used to live in Flushing. :-)
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Posted 11/06/2020   10:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add shermae to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I grew up not far from Queens College
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Posted 11/06/2020   10:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
METER is the preferred spelling in the US
METRE is used everywhere else.

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I grew up in Woodside.
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Posted 11/08/2020   03:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sotwuser to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
METER is the preferred spelling in the US
METRE is used everywhere else.


Actually the only European languages that spell it metre is French, Catalan, British English and Turkish.

In German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Slovak, Slovenian and Albanian, it is spelled meter.

Metro is the spelling in Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Basque and Italian.

Other languages have different spellings such as metr in Polish, Czech and Welsh or metra in Icelandic. That doesn't even take in to account other alphabets such as Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, etc.
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Edited by sotwuser - 11/08/2020 04:01 am
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Posted 11/08/2020   05:29 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I was quoting,
perhaps "everywhere else" was an English speaking cynosure.
https://grammarist.com/spelling/meter-metre/
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