I live mainly in Spain but in my UK village a local greengrocer sells only in lbs and ounces with no metric equivalent prices.It is not too difficult to multiply by 2.2 to get the answer that my brain is atuned too.Interestingly all televisions in Spain are quoted by their screen size in inches. Domestic pipe work is also inches.Just to confuse the issue the metric system was the brainchild of a an Englishman in the 1600s. Chris.KP
----- Original Message ---- From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 11 September, 2007 8:26:12 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Demetrication On 11 Sep 2007, at 18:54, Michael Askin wrote: > It is still illegal to sell in pounds and ounces, as the UK law in > still in force. However, we could change it now if we wanted to No, you can sell in pounds and ounces, you just have to show the metric equivalents as well. (So it's perfectly legal to sell a pound of meat, but you have to show the price per kilo) All the best Bruce "Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise' Yahoo! Groups Links ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
