Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throw0101a 1924 days ago
> “Meter” is multiply overloaded. A unit of distance. A thing that makes measurements. An adjustment to a rate of flow.

There is "meter" and there is "metre".

> “Put an end mill in the mill and mill off five mills.”

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...