Ezra. I share your sentiment. I watch the BBC and Al Jazeera news on
TV nearly every day. Al Jazeera typically gives reports using SI units
but every now and then some reporter gives a measurement in feet for
some odd reason. The BBC seems to be rather haphazard when it comes to
measurements; sometimes meters, sometimes feet.
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:46:37 +0000 (UTC)
From: ezra.steinb...@comcast.net
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Subject: [USMA:52925] Bad sign re: Canada and metrication
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
I was listening to "As It Happens" from the CBC last night. A French
Canadian marine biologist was being interviewed about a whale
constrained by a crab pot that they were trying to free.
When asked how big the crab pot was, he unreservedly used "feet"
instead of "meters". :-(
After all these years of metrication and even with the influence of
the metric used in French TV shows, magazines, etc. which abound in
Quebec, this guys still used "feet".
Maybe he was translating from "meters" since he was on the English
language radio network, but it still is a sad reminder of the bad
influence of the USA on Canada when it comes to metric usage.
Ezra
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