For the record, I kilos to stones. I also prefer the ten month calendar
because it's more masculine than counting lunar cycles.
Around here the hatch is always the pound. If you pound enough you get
hash. Not that kind.
If we all spoke one language we'd all speak like me.
t 01:39 PM 7/12/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>Mark Weiss wrote:
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>> Yet another reason to fight to the death against metrics.
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>Mark - Having fitted new hard drives to both of my computers and loading
>software on them, I found myself - once again - cursing the US for not going
>metric. I have had to go in to each program and change page setup from
>inches to centimetres, page size from quarto to A4.
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>Most of the world now uses the eminently sensible metric system. Why does
>the US persist in sticking with the cumbersome and impractical Empirial
>(sp?) measures? I
>mean, 16 oz to the lb and 12" to the foot versus 1,000 grams to the kilo and
>1,000 cms to the metre - there's no contest! Ergo, there were some sensible
>people among those French revolutionaries.
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>It's the same with these references to the "hash" key, which I also find
>terribly irritating. It's a bloody "hatch" key! (And just to protect myself
>after writing this, I have consulted the concise Oxford: defn. 3 for the
>word includes reference to "two crossing sets of parallel lines".)
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