What I find annoying is people using the term square footage instead of area,
“what’s the square footage of your house” instead of “what’s the area of your
house”. Also the use of “Horsepower instead of “Power”. This engine develops
plenty of Horsepower instead of this engine develops plenty of
Copy of a letter I wrote to United Airlines after reading an OpEd from the CEO
on how “global” United is.
A year or more ago I got a call from his assistant after I wrote a similar
letter, they stated they were going to include metric in all articles. So far
i’ve not seen any metric. Maybe it
I agree, you get more resistance to using metric if you force a change in our
language. Changes to language comes natural over time. No one knows what a
cubit is but every kid learns about cubits when they learn the story of Noah.
Didn’t change anything just one of those things you hear or
Not even the hemisphere. Using figures from a Google search (510.1 million
km², 9 826 675 km², never mind the poor form of the 1st) the United States,
where Customary is used, is a little less than 1/50 the global area. I don't
know the word for a fiftieth of a sphere, but, if there is such a
So far, I have found only *titles* of many NIST training courses for
inspectors, but have found no details of course contents or even summaries of
course contents.
My objective is to see that, even under the current FPLA (requiring dual
labeling), metric-only enforcement training of inspectors
