what such clocks looked like.)
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formula is
(base-area*height)/3. In that case, we have an integer divisor, rather than
a fractional multiplier.
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John:
Perhaps you could clarify what on earth this has to do with SI.
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http://www.vera.com/PSDocs/PSOverview.html.
Also, start using Google more.
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Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 14:12
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42 US gallons is 159 L (or, to be precise, 158.987 304 L).
As for barrel, that's what the oil was stored in during the early days of
the oil business. See
http://www.oilhistory.com/pages/Barrels/standardization.html.
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And Time) could
be said to apply to inch/pound generally.
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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 14:12
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Subject: [USMA
or the other.
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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 16:38
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Subject: [USMA:24537] Metric Today and more
2003
Brenton Conway wrote:
Before adopting metric Australia used the UK imperial.
As did all the other Commonwealth countries.
(Egad, sir; the Empire's going to the dogs!)
Bill Potts, CMS
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Metric Today is the bimonthly newsletter of the US Metric Association.
It's sent to all USMA members.
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, British Colonial is
a term that fits well with our strategy.
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Jim:
It is not trimmed to A4. It's trimmed to A3, then folded -- yielding A4 size
pages.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:41
You mean that you no longer include the tael in FFU?
A very sad tael indeed.
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In 1989, I bought a 24 carat gold chain in Hong Kong. The invoice showed its
mass in both taels and grams. I got if for official price for gold on the
day I bought it, plus 30 HK dollars for workmanship. (I was with someone who
was a friend of the store owner.)
Bill Potts, CMS
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that idea has, though.)
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Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:53
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Subject: [USMA:24556] exaJoules
In my paper
it in order to establish the tael's value. I have a force-motor
scale, accurate to about 1 mg.
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We should note also that, for laundry use, only dryers use the higher
voltage. Washing machines use the same voltage as everything else in the
house.
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. The transformers
are unnecessary for today's camcorder and laptop AC adapters, as they accept
a very wide primary voltage range.
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search (using Lux and thermostats as the keywords) didn't reveal the
manufacturer's web site, but I now know it's http://www.luxproducts.com. (I
suspect they haven't bothered to submit their URL to any of the search
engines. They do have a good range of keywords on their home page.)
Bill Potts, CMS
. The options are listed on the instruction sheet,
under Advanced Features. All of the illustrated operating examples use
am/pm times and degrees Fahrenheit.
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Pat:
You can't show the real letter pi in a plain text message (you need HTML
formatting, using the symbol font for the pi). Your pi is coming out as the
single character for 1/4.
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any staff sub-editor or
rewrite person.) She does at least deserve kudos for her consistent use of
the original SI units and for not inserting her clarification within an
actual quotation.
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Joe Reid wrote:
My memory is that the therm is 100 000 Btu, so I checked it in
Scientific Unit Conversion by François Cardarelli, 2nd English
edition of 1999. It says
1 therm = 100 000 Btu
= 1.054 804 X 10^8.
I guess you intended to put a J at the end of that.
Bill Potts
I could be wrong, but I don't think there is an official SI logo.
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Yeah, right.
Take another look.
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U.S. Metric AssociationSubject: [USMA:24697
be
thousands of do not cares who simply ignored the poll altogether.
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I seem to remember a reference to 100 square miles.
Also, he mispronounced kilometer.
As for teaspoon and pinch, maybe he's an amateur gourmet cook.
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John:
All five of your attached jpg files are blank -- not surprising, really, as
they're all just 742 bytes long.
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Joe Reid wrote:
A Scottish friend of mine in 1937 took a prescription for so many gr
(grains) to a pharmacist in Vienna. The pharmacist interpreted gr as
grams. The result was alarming.
Looks like it was a laxative or something. g
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Han:
Surely you know a spoof when you see one. It's satire.
The spelling of BusinessWeak should have tipped you off.
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gasoline additive (made by the
Canadian company), and the suing of a Mexican Town, by an American company,
for trying to close down a toxic waste dump that is affecting the residents'
health.
I cannot imagine a company in another NAFTA country suing a US company for
using SI.
Bill Potts, CMS
though, technically, it is).
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Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 20:46
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Subject: [USMA:24816] Re: Fwd: Milk
Dennis Brownridge and I have anticipated that very need, Terry.
Just go to http://metric1.org/nonsi.htm.
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Sent: Sunday
, though, look at the explanatory notes. Those
items with an asterisk are exact conversions, so the conversion factor only
goes to the number of places necessary.
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Brownridge for the explanation. The
choice of the word appropriate is his. Maybe he'll read this thread and
respond. (I haven't seen any postings from him in quite a while.)
Bill Potts, CMS
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Again, it's Dennis Brownridge's call.
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Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 15:53
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Subject: [USMA:24884] RE
I must be losing it. I forgot about that one -- even though I've had a copy
for the last three years or so.
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, the most reliable car I've ever had (as
it approaches 200 Mm).
One thing they have/had in common, of course -- all metric to the core
(other than the odometer and the primary scale on the speedometer). SI and
quality don't necessarily go hand in hand.
Bill Potts, CMS
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' labeled directions.
An earlier paragraph refers to an overdose resulting from instructions specifying
teaspoons and a dosing cup calibrated in tablespoons. Obviously, the only safe answer
is to enforce the use of SI throughout.
Bill Potts, CMS
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I just took another look at my IEEE/ASTM SI 10-1997. Under the document
number, it says, parenthetically, Revision and Redesignation of ANSI/IEEE
Std 268-1992 and ASTM E 380.
So, you can take it from that that IEEE 268 is obsolete.
Bill Potts, CMS
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to this list.
On the other hand, in any paper or article (in print or on a web site) on SI
intended for a general readership, the list of names (if used) should be
split into those that are used for SI units and those that were previously,
but not currently, honored for pre-SI metric unit names.
Bill
I could be that line feeds (Shift-Enter) are not recognized as such in
incoming text-only messages.
Try using conventional carriage-return/line feeds (Enter only).
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I wrote:
I could be that line feeds ...
That should, of course, be It could be ...
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ounces.)
Saying 7 oz more than half-liter size is, of course, really stupid.
By the way, I never shop at Wal-Mart. (They're one of the world's biggest
exploiters of sweat-shop labor.)
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overtime. They also have crappy
benefits. The members of the Walton family are poster boys (and girls) for
corporate greed.
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Of course, it's entirely
possible that he got to Jim's site from either my site or the USMAsite.
J
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%
Iceland
26
4
0.01%
4
0.01%
45
0.02%
Sweden
27
4
0.01%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
South Africa
28
3
0.01%
2
0.01%
5
0.00%
Spain
29
2
0.00%
1
0.00%
6
0.00%
Poland
Bill
I believe it's less than that. It's known as the Mile High City and there
are markers (which I've seen, having been there a number of times)
indicating its altitude as 5280 feet -- exactly one mile, or about 1609 m.
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(this was Britain in 1956) with sprint rims and tubular tires (sew-ups is
the American term). Top gear was 94.5 inches (27*(49/14)). Bottom gear was
56 inches (27*(46/22)).
Obviously, these days, I would be talking about 69 cm wheels and a 144 cm to
240 cm gear range..
Bill Potts, CMS
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John Schweisthal wrote: I take it the country is taken from the URL
extension. But, why are there so many unresolved/unknowns?
I don't know. I've never looked into it.
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The Thursday Sidney Morning Herald refers to the bomb's mass as 9545 kg (a
conversion that is both excessively precise and inaccurate -- about 20 kg
too high), so they are probably assuming that the 21 000 lb figure is the
correct one. (It would have been better expressed as about 9500 kg.)
Bill
Wouldn't explosive force be in terms of an energy yield -- GJ or TJ -- and
an expression of the energy yield per second -- GJ/s or TJ/s?
Of course, in practice, we know the baseline standard is in tons (FFU) or
metric tons (or tonnes) of TNT.
Bill Potts, CMS
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., Toronto.) All the other shampoos I saw (and I
didn't look at them all), including L'Oréal, were marked in SI only.
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1 t, not 1 T.
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 07:47
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Subject: [USMA:25137] Re: t = t
At 14 March 2003, 10
and the slightly heavier long
ton is only 17 kg -- which made conversion easier (in terms of having a feel
for it) for those in the British Commonwealth than in the U.S.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Just a nit, Stan.
Metric tonne (as opposed to metric ton) is redundant. A tonne is, by
definition, metric.
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, but
they've done considerably more than the Conservatives have ever been willing
to do.
By the way, Robin Cook is not a Minister, although he is a Cabinet Member.
He is the Government's Leader of the House of Commons (usually referred to,
simply, as Leader of the House).
Bill Potts, CMS
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http
with other
than a white background, as people with vision problems will have their
browser suppress the background color.
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would be both a unit and a prefix.
As prefixes are never used in isolation, there is never any ambiguity. In
any case, I wouldn't expect to see too many references to exaeuclids.
Bill Potts, CMS
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The subject heading should be exaeuclid, not exaEuclid.
If the name were to be adopted, it would, like all other units named after
people, be all lower case.
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If Aaron Brown is a moron, then he is selectively so.
I find him to be one of the most thoughtful people on CNN -- very measured
and very careful.
Having said that, I'll admit that someone needs to hit him upside the head
(figuratively speaking, of course) on that particular issue.
Bill Potts
I assume you're referring to Walter Isaacson. I thought he was leaving (or
had already left) CNN.
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Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 20
. (We
could hardly define the liter as 1000 mL. That would be a tautology.)
The elimination of da (for deca) might be possible. However, it wouldn't hurt to keep
it, even though it's rarely used.
Bill Potts, CMS
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We've been through this one already, Brij.
First, the spoken GRAM is identical to the spoken gram -- leading to the
same confusion as between Calorie and calorie.
Second, it violates the rule of all lower case in unit names, including
those named after people.
Bill Potts, CMS
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http
), such as that of
a car trunk or car interior, I don't object to liters. For room volumes, I
prefer cubic meters, of course.
In a pure SI world, we wouldn't, of course, use liter, with or without
prefix. However, we'd be using an awful lot of syllables to say the same
thing.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Pat Naughtin wrote:
To put this more directly:
What is the highest ever recorded atmospheric pressure?
What is the highest ever recorded atmospheric pressure?
You must be getting old, Pat. You're repeating yourself.
Yeah, I know that, in one of those, you meant to say lowest. g
Bill Potts
wrenches and socket sets. They don't have much
choice in that arena, of course.
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To all:
Attached is an image from the latest Wal-Mart ad. I've known that
Roundup comes in a 5 liter container for some time, but to see it
advertised
Interesting. I'll take another look in one of my local Home Depots. (I'm
there quite often.) My last casual mini-survey of that product line was
about a year ago.
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control days either, but at least they're really close
to being uniform in length.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 15:34
To: U.S
and the
job was, as is usual, priced by the linear foot. I avoided boring anyone
with a dissertation on metric, being glad to have them honor a year-old
quote of $14 per linear foot (of which I paid half and my neighbor paid
half).
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And, by an amazing coincidence, the name of the most ancient Chaldean town,
Ur, is almost the same as the German (Uhr) and the Dutch (uur) for clock.
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/ASTM SI-10?
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 09:15
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:25370] Re: Definitions
He can find
, though, in ISO 8601 date format (not SI, but nonetheless an
international standard), unit symbols are not even necessary. In context,
+05:30 is unambiguous and perfectly correct.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Pat Naughtin wrote:
As I walked this morning, I calculated my speed at about 100 metres per
minute. I have now compared this with some track and field results for
champion athletes.
I would appreciate any comments.
You must be an old fart, like me. g
Bill Potts, CMS
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not make a religion out of avoidance of approved non-SI units.
Metrication needs to offer a reasonably big tent to cover a variety of needs
and styles. With too much rigidity, metrication has less chance of ultimate
success.
Bill Potts, CMS
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You must have been peeking at the Political Action section of SI Navigator
(http://metric1.org/action.htm). g
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Couldn't resist the plug.
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That's O.K. I knew you got it from the source.
As I said, I couldn't resist the opportunity to plug SI Navigator.
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Paul Trusten wrote:
Certainly, America will
give you millions of hits when metric finally comes to our
shores officially.
But it did -- many years ago. Unfortunately they've been keeping it a
secret.
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not too hard for people to learn that there are 1000 liters in
a cubic meter. That kind of relationship (a really simple one) is what SI is
all about.
Bill Potts, CMS
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There's nothing wrong with kiloliters. That wasn't my point.
I was concerned with the size and the excessive precision of unprefixed
liters, rather than with the exact name. One advantage of kiloliters, as
opposed to cubic meters, is that the symbol avoids the use of a superscript.
Bill Potts
I don't think the modulo 100 is deliberate. I suspect whoever cropped the
photo for publication cropped it too close on the left side and cut all the
1's off.
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So it is indeed modulo 100.
I guess they couldn't afford all those 1's. g
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says that the conversion took place from 1967
to 1977.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Unfortunately, Brij, the Miss Metric idea smacks of sexism. I wouldn't
touch it with a 3 m pole.
In any case, your figures are hardly rounded. The usual metric values for
the dimensions you gave are 90 cm, 60 cm, 90 cm, with a height of 165 cm or
170 cm.
Bill Potts, CMS
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range. As I remember, 1 F
is the approximate capacitance of the Earth.
Given thata billionth of an ohm
isn't very practical, either, I've never had cause to find out whether it's
nanoohm or nanohm (corollary of megohm).
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Amazing.
I really have to get caught up, technologically. g
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You seem to have proposed your own solution.
Just don't read them. Delete them, even.
Seems simple enough to me.
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bviously g), but don't tend to
think of it as SI (possibly because it's a detail they didn't think it necessary
to remember). However, my casual observation is that more know it as SI than
not.
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to construct than Toronto's enormous
downtown underground city, which provides the same climatic benefits, but
with no outside views.
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from the initial letters of the words of a compound
term."
Do you,
Joe,pronounce SI as "sigh" or as "ess eye?"
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Joseph
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
You realize, of course,
that any other number of cents to the dollar would be
impossible.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville, CAhttp://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Norman Nancy
WerlingSent: Tuesday, June
in a shilling and 20 shillings in a
pound.
The link you provided
was perfectly good and very informative.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville, CAhttp://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Norman Nancy
WerlingSent
base units above is called the Système
International dUnités;
2. the international abbreviation of the name of the system is: SI;
...
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Pat:
Your message, below, appears to be an exact duplicate of your USMA: 26025.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
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Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 00:54
To: Bill Potts; U.S. Metric Association
for abbreviation, you remove all distinction between the two words,
thus rendering at least one of them useless.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville,
CAhttp://metric1.org [SI
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Joseph B.
ReidSent: Thursday, June 12
notified them of the problem.)
According to the page at
http://www.saila.com/usage/acronym/,
the Oxford Dictionary does, indeed, define initialism -- exactly as your
reference does.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville,
CAhttp://metric1.org [SI
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never pronounced as a word, it's not an acronym. Usually would
apply to the REM example in one of my previous messages. It's usually
pronounced rem (i.e., as a word), but may also be spelled out as arr ee
em. Again, SI is NEVER pronounced as see or sigh.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
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Joe:
The message you quote below is without attribution. Can we assume, from
USMA: 26042, that the writer was Brian White?
Whoever wrote it, I agree with him, of course.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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letters -- i.e., the conventional English vocal _expression_ of the spelling. To
me, that quite definitively rules it out as an acronym.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville,
CAhttp://metric1.org [SI
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They write it as km, which is correct.
What's your point? Are you trying to point out the lack of a space between 5
and km? That's not considered an error -- only a question of style. The
British (for example) always leave out the space. I don't like it, but it's
not absolutely wrong.
Bill Potts
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