Hi Joe, Bill sirs:
I am joining just for musing.
I can't find acronym in my dictionaries. However SI is the same in
all.
This is 'ess eye' as the abbreviation in all languages for Systeme
Internationale d'Unites, to mean SI system of Units. Perhaps this is the
only *acronym* that is not
Brij wrote:This is 'ess eye' as the
abbreviation in all languages for SystemeInternationale d'Unites,
to mean SI system of Units. Perhaps this is theonly *acronym* that is
not SIU, UIS or USI. Just SI!SI cannot possibly mean SI system of Units.
That would be redundant.SI stands for Système
Title: Re: [USMA:25961] my German friend never heard of
SI
At 13:43 -0500 7/06/03, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
For just
about as long as I've been following this list, I have had a German
pen pal in Berlin. Last week,I sent her something I had
written,
and it was
peppered with the acronym SI.
At 11:24 +1000 8/06/03, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear Norman,
You refer to the adoption, by the USA, of decimal currency (in 1793 I
think). Do you know if the USA was the first nation in the world to adopt
decimal currency, or was there any other nation who had done so earlier?
Yes, it was. France
Pat Naughtin asked in USMA 25972:
Dear Norman,
You refer to the adoption, by the USA, of decimal currency (in 1793 I
think). Do you know if the USA was the first nation in the world to adopt
decimal currency, or was there any other nation who had done so earlier?
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
So
Title: Re: [USMA:25973] RE: my German friend never heard
of S
Bill Pots wrote in USMA 25973:
The concise
definition of acronym is a word formed from the initial letters
of the words of a compound term.
Do you,
Joe,pronounce SI as sigh or as ess
eye?
Bill Potts,
CMS
-Original Message-
BrijWhy are your emails so hard to read?
I think someone needs to teach you about the carriage return! hahah
At 06:50 2003-06-08 +, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
Hi Joe, Bill sirs:
I am joining just for musing.
I can't find acronym in my dictionaries. However SI is the same in
all.
Title: Re: [USMA:25973] RE: my German friend never heard
of S
Bill Pots wrote in USMA 25973:
The concise
definition of acronym is a word formed from the initial letters
of the words of a compound term.
Do you,
Joe,pronounce SI as sigh or as ess
eye?
Bill Potts,
CMS
-Original Message-
Title: Re: [USMA:25973] RE: my German friend never heard
of S
Bill Pots wrote in USMA 25973:
The concise
definition of acronym is a word formed from the initial letters
of the words of a compound term.
Do you,
Joe,pronounce SI as sigh or as ess
eye?
Bill Potts,
CMS
-Original Message-
Title: Re: [USMA:25973] RE: my German friend never heard
of S
Bill Pots wrote in USMA 25973:
The concise
definition of acronym is a word formed from the initial letters
of the words of a compound term.
Do you,
Joe,pronounce SI as sigh or as ess
eye?
Bill Potts,
CMS
-Original Message-
My online M-W dictionary backs you up, Bill.
From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/06/07 Sat PM 09:37:28 EDT
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [USMA:25973] RE: my German friend never heard of SI
Re: [USMA:25962] RE: my German friend never heard of SYou've
Title: Re: [USMA:25973] RE: my German friend never heard
of S
Bill Pots wrote in USMA 25973:
The concise
definition of acronym is a word formed from the initial letters
of the words of a compound term.
Do you,
Joe,pronounce SI as sigh or as ess
eye?
Bill Potts,
CMS
-Original Message-
Paul and all,
Hey that rhymed!
Although my wife has urged that we give away our set of World Book
Encyclopedias, I have resisted. Even with the internet, I still refer to
them.
I quote from our 1972 World Book, Volume 13, pages 594-595:
The Coinage Act of 1792 established the first national
I grew up on the World Book Encyclopedia, 1958 edition. I used to marvel at
all the information in that work under petroleum.
But where does this say that the US was the FIRST nation to use decimal
currency?
Being pro-USA, I don't want to dispute this, it being a fact which I've used
many times
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