<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 12/09/2007 18:28:10 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't believe an intelligent person like yourself would want to take such a retrograde step, although it is amazing how often one hears people refer to money as 'pounds, shillings and pence', even people who are far too young to remember pre-decimal currency Brian replied But if we had not gone metric that pint would not have gone up from 1/10 to 10p an increase of almost 10%
