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Why no Farad or Henry meter?
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TimFox:
In English (both UK and US), "metronome" and "metrology" are pronounced as in that spelling, with "tro" instead of "ter".
("Meteorology" is from a different Greek root.)
The important pronunciation difference is whether the Greek root is at the beginning or end of the word.
Unfortunately, Americans often insist on spelling "theater" (as it is pronounced) as "theatre" (to feign Frenchness).
However, "theatrical" is always spelled in an analogous fashion to "metronome", again following pronunciation, where the Greek root is at the beginning.

Note that in both the UK and US, "metre/meter", "litre/liter", "theatre/theater", etc. are always pronounced with "ter".

Also, "meter" meaning measurement device and "parameter" are always spelled "ter" in English.
Since the metric system was first developed in France, French names (metre, litre, etc.) were applied to the new units, but when English-speaking people adopted them, the pronunciations quickly went to "ter".
Ground_Loop:

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We don't have volt meters either - they are typically multimeters and do at least resistance too. Of course, you can get just plain volt reading meters for niche use, but then I am fairly sure
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Yea we do.



tooki:

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--- Quote ---Much of the spelling/pronunciation problems in English result from
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Other countrys bastardising it and claiming there version is the default standard.The clue is in the name "english" if an  other country wishes to drop the odd letter out of words or change the order of the letters around then fine,but dont claim its english,find your own name.

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Yyyyeah, that’s not how languages work, buddy. The fact that you and I can understand each other without any difficulty is a very strong indicator that we are using the same language. (Mutual intelligibility is a core criterion for whether two systems of speech are considered to be distinct languages vs. different dialects of the same language.)

Bringing politics into the picture gets you the situation of Serbo-Croatian, whose two main dialects are now referred to as separate languages by their speakers, due to the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia. Linguistically speaking, they’re the same language, just as both British English and American English are dialects of “English”, which refers to all dialects of it.

I’ve said this before and I'll say it again and again: it’s absolutely incredible (in the sense of incredulity, not admiration) how condescending, dismissive, and aggressive the British get towards Americans regarding the language, despite the fact that modern British English (in its numerous regional dialects) and modern American English have both evolved away from our ancestral English of 400 years ago. Certainly neither dialect has any claim on being any more “correct” or “authentic” nowadays. And it’s also well-documented that where British and American English differ, it’s often American English that stays closer to the ancestral form. That’s not the case in this instance, but it is true a lot more often than you’d think. As for Americans: I’m not sure we should take any crap about our English from the country that is also home to Cockney and countless other regional dialects that teeter on the brink of unintelligibility. They have “bastardized” their language every bit as much as we have, arguably more so.
AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: retiredfeline on December 02, 2023, 09:47:30 am ---It's just that you usually don't have to monitor capacitance or inductance but monitoring voltage and current is commonplace. Resistance less so, but enough measurements are made that such a meter has a name.

Ammeter is just far easier to say than amperemeter. Voltmeter doesn't trip the tongue so much. If meters for capacitance or inductance were commonplace, I suspect they'd get shortened to farmeter and henmeter. :-DD

Of course what really grates is that a potentiometer doesn't measure potentios and is not a meter, but a voltage divider.  :-//

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A potentiometer meters out electrical potential, hence the name.
andre_teprom:
I guess we don't have Farad and Henry meters because they're not as commonly needed in everyday electrical measurements. Farads are more about capacitance, and Henrys deal with inductance, which are usually used in more specialized situations.
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