Talk:spectrometre

RFV discussion: October–December 2012
Tagged but not listed. - -sche (discuss) 23:28, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * There is French spectromètre but I had never heard of this spelling in English. A smattering of gbooks hits  While some of these could be put down to the preferences of non-English authors, there does seem to be enough there to make it citable. Spinning Spark  10:54, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It is clearly assessed by other dictionaries as too rare for inclusion. It is probably considered wrong, annoying, or distracting by most readers, certainly in the US. Does that make it ? DCDuring TALK 12:21, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It would be wrong according to even the loosest prescriptivist rules of British English, where "metre" refers to a distance or a poetic rhythm and "meter" refers to a measuring device, but those are certainly plenty of citations. My best guess would be to call it a common misspelling of spectrometer. (It's also possible, incidentally, that some of those books fell foul of some kind of automatic filter designed to convert spellings to British/Commonwealth English - the second citation talks about the "alpha proton X-ray spectrometre", even though this is a NASA proper noun, and NASA spells it "Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer") Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, they may even be typos. Citation 2 contains at least 10 "spectrometer"s. Citation 3 contains 9 "spectrometer"s and 1 "spectrometre", citation 4 has 15 "spectrometer"s and 2 "spectrometre"s and so on. Smurrayinchester (talk) 14:03, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * There is no reasonable basis for calling it "common" as a misspelling. If we are to attempt to be helpful my including it, we need some other presentation. DCDuring TALK 14:33, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Following Smurrayinchester, I withdraw the offered citations. All except cite 5 do not have a consistent spelling and could therefore be taken as typos. Spinning Spark  16:03, 8 October 2012 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 18:52, 2 December 2012 (UTC)