Timeline for "This table has a height of 1 meter" or "this table has the height of 1 meter"?
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | spacetyper | @JasonStack I was trying to convey that it pains me that the country I live uses imperial units and not metric units, because imperial units are ad-hoc and not very intuitive/logical. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:49 | comment | added | Mehdi Haghgoo | @spacetyper what is the #killme thing? | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 17:13 | comment | added | GEdgar | In English, the first one is preferred. But in other languages which use definite and indefinite articles, the other choice may have been made. The point is: you cannot tell simply by logic which to use. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 16:20 | vote | accept | Mehdi Haghgoo | ||
| Sep 8, 2016 at 15:59 | answer | added | JerryNotts | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 9:04 | comment | added | J... | This question feels like it belongs on ELL. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 8:42 | comment | added | Helmar | @spacetyper in 19th century measurement countries you do ;) | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 5:54 | comment | added | alephzero | @spacetyper Only in American English. If you go to a store in the UK, you won't find any products for sale measured in feet and inches. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 2:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/768996631173795840 | ||
| Aug 25, 2016 at 22:42 | answer | added | supercat | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 21:43 | comment | added | spacetyper | In English, we use feet ;) #killme | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 19:14 | comment | added | Scimonster | @BladorthinTheGrey That's spelling, not grammar. | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | MetaEd | @BladorthinTheGrey This site has not adopted a standard dialect of English. American as well as British spellings are welcome. | |
| S Aug 25, 2016 at 17:26 | history | suggested | Gregory Avery-Weir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed extra "the;" assuming typo. Other tweaks to reach 6 total characters of edits.
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| Aug 25, 2016 at 17:14 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 25, 2016 at 17:05 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 14:08 | answer | added | Richard Kayser | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 13:32 | answer | added | Victor Wu | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 13:30 | history | asked | Mehdi Haghgoo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |