On Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:33 PM [GMT+1=CET], Malcolm Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I learnt the metric system in school in the 60's - used it exclusively > in engineering since my apprenticeship and college in that 60's early > 70's. I learnt "the" metric system at at school in the 50s, then had to learn a new metric system when the mks system came in alongside the cgs system, then again when SI displaced them both. Perhaos that's why I still think in ounces ad inches, which haven't changed. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk No man is an island. So is Man.
