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Originally Posted by meeera
I keep seeing people calling it the "Libre". Is it called this in some countries?
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No, that's just French and Spanish for free (or sometimes as in free and freedom, hence Libre Office).
Libra is from Latin for scales and is the name of a star-sign (lunar months, not just astrology), a constellation of stars when viewed from the Solar System and a model of Kobo ereader. A few Kobos end in "a":
Aura, Nia, Libra, Elipsa.
Some don't such as Touch, Mini and Sage.
The original H2O was actually an Aura HD H2O.
The original Libra was a Libra H2O, but replaced by Libra 2.
You also get Calibre software incorrectly spelled Caliber as that's USA spelling for a gun barrel size. OED reflects usage. Webster from the start was prescriptive and deliberately changed -re to -er, -our to -or and -ll- to l, though in some USA places the English/French spelling would have been more common.
People tend to use the spelling they are familiar with.