UK Liquid volume: pints for fresh milk but litres for evaporated-pints for beer but millilitres/mills for spirits
Distance/length: miles/yards/feet for distance but metres/centimetres for building materials (and drawings) Weight: Lbs/ounces for produce (and sometimes grammes but we wont go into that) but kilos for body weight ('cept for 'old fogies' who still use stones) Ask someone how long a cable you need they will answer in feet but we buy it per metre We say a car is 10ft long but measure its boot capacity in litres, engine capacity in litres but still talk of horsepower People talk of 1/4 of a %! (That to me is the 'best' one, combining fractions with metrics) No wonder we can be a mixed up lot, we will drag ourselves into the 20th century kicking and screaming (Might get to the 21st someday too) Nick you *know* what the queen uses?! Anyway if you want Fahrenheit just remember Tf = (9/5)*Tc+32, simples ;) On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:58:23 UTC+1, Nick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:28:41 UTC+1, Lucky wrote: >> >> Still makes me laugh, here in the UK people use Fahrenheit when >> describing 'hot' days but Centigrade when 'cold'! >> Anyway I think it should be measured in 'Kelvins' ;) >> > > No-one that I know of in the UK still uses degrees F, except superannuated > old fogies who still believe we have an empire... > > The only thing you need to know is that the BBC and the Queen use degrees > C... I rest my case... > > ...though we use imperial measures for length (but often also metric) and > distance, speed & area, volume of draught beer and milk (but not petrol) > etc. simple really. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/e-SSBHUoC58J. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.