Gene:
It was Joe's error, which you reproduced.
I refrained from commenting until I saw it being propagated. <g>
George Bernard Shaw would probably have excused both of you. He hated the
inconsistencies of English spelling.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Gene Mechtly
> Sent: February 27, 2001 12:29
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Cc: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:11332] Re: Mass or weight
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Bill Potts wrote:
>
> > Gene Mechtly wrote:
> > > And thanks, Joe, for your "here here" ...
> >
> > Which should, of course, have been "hear hear."
> Blame that error on me, Bill. Joe might have written the correct
> "hear hear" and I failed to quote his spelling accurately. My only
> excuse is that the phonetics are the same for both spellings. (not true
> for French "metre" and U.S. "meter" of course)
> Gene.
>
>
