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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Metric again
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.225747.3804@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <17268@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov8.222219.14106@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <sturges-091192110833@158.185.20.239> <92316.135316RFRANCIS@ESTEC.BITNET>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:57:47 GMT
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- In <92316.135316RFRANCIS@ESTEC.BITNET> RFRANCIS@ESTEC.BITNET (C R Francis) writes:
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- >In article <sturges-091192110833@158.185.20.239>,
- >sturges@master.lds-az.loral.com (Jim Sturges) says:
- >>
- >>From the society for the preservation of purity in language.....
- >>
- >>ALL measuring systems are "metric." What we're talking about is the
- >>difference between SI and English?
- >>
-
- >Strangely enough the system you call English is not used in England. The
- >system slowly being phased out in the UK is called Imperial, and is slightly
- >different from the US 'English' system (eg some units of volume have the same
- >name but different size).
-
- We know that. Of course, the language we call English isn't really
- the one that is spoken in England, either. The same sorts of 'subtle'
- differences have crept in as exist in the two measurement systems.
-
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