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I just came across an article from the BBC
published on Sept 02 (this year) about the metric muddle in the UK. I also read
the comments posted online by readers of this article and noted the
following:
I wrote a thesis on this very subject - people continue to use feet, stone,
and other imperial measures because they are a handy, readily perceived unit.
Here in New Zealand, which has been metric for 30 years, young adults use a
peculiar mix of units, going from centimetres to feet to metres and from grammes
to kilogrammes to stones. They even talk about "600 millilitre pint bottles".
The same will almost certainly happen in the UK.
James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand Just wondeirng if Pat could tell us if this is an
accurate description of what's up in New Zealand these days and if Australia is
at all in a similar boat.
Cheers,
Ezra
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- [USMA:31029] State of affairs in New Zealand Ezra Steinberg
