Are you sure the box showed "Kg," rather than "kg?" Procter and Gamble is
usually more careful than that.
Of course, some of us on this list (including me) would like to see D, H and
K, rather than da, h and k, simply to be consistent with the other
multiplier prefixes -- M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y. But until CGPM sees the light,
we're stuck with three exceptions.
A friend of mine commented to me, yesterday, that every year is the start of
a new millennium. I think he's right.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of M R
> Sent: December 31, 2000 15:47
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:10134] Font Tactics
>
>
> Yesterday in a K-Mart (in Washington DC Metro) store I
> saw the tide detergent box. Its Made in Canada for
> the NAFTA market and has instructions in English,
> Spanish & French.
>
> It has
> "2 Kg" written in big font followed by
> "some oz and pounds" in small font in the next line.
>
> and in the same shelf, there are US made products for
> the US market alone in which the
> oz, pounds and kg's are in same font in the same line.
>
> Its a very nice tactic to promote metric. If the
> companies increase the font size of metric units
> slowly over the years, people will switch over to it
> smoothly.
>
> Wish you all a Very Happy New Millinneum.
>
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