In addition, marker posts in Northern Ireland are at 110 yard intervals and are
calibrated in miles and chains, while those in England and Wales are at 100
metre intervals and are calibrated in kilometres. I believe that Scottish
marker posts are also calibrated in kilometres, but I have not
As if US units were not complicated enough, you might appreciate knowing
about the mess with with the kitchen and laboratory ounces.
With U.S. kitchen measures, 1 ounce says 30 mL and 8 ounces says 240 mL on
a measuring cup, That's the conversion factor according to FDA.
For laboratory work,
Charles, Could have been. But it was before before 1990, maybe 1980. I was
driven from Dublin westwards. An hour. Forgot the name of the town. But I
told the story many times in those "metric" days and so it is doubtful that
I made it up.
To my roundabout story at the Bourne bridge, I forgot to
In the UK most recipes tend to give quantities for dry ingredients by
weight rather than by volume - traditionally in imperial units, though
there is a mixture of imperial and metric in recent publications. So most
UK households will probably have kitchen scales. The older ones will be in
imperial
That is a terrible cartoon. It makes the metric system seem complicated,. Even
worse, it makes it look like a lot of math is involved and most people hate
math and will do almost anything to avoid it. It is completely
counterproductive.
Al Lawrence.
On Jul 11, 2016 8:52 PM, "Hillger,Donald"
Stan, It was probably the other way round. Ireland (though not Northern
Ireland) changed from mph to km/h for speed limits in 2005. They replaced
all of their old UK-style speed limit signs with km/h signs over a few
days. To avoid any confusion, all the new signs had "km/h" shown on them.
They
