Ivan, I've been accused of being tongue in cheeky in the past, but my impression is that the spelling 'litre' is the way the rest of the world spells it. I wonder if folks in the U.S. spell it the wrong way (i.e. 'liter') because they don't recognize it to begin with. Also, when and if the U.S. ever does decide to recognize the liter as the standard, they would not be 'joining the rest of the world.' I would like you to know that pints, quarts, inches, feet, the whole nine yards, are also the standard units of Liberia and Myanmar. Reid P.S. Oh come on Ivan, you wouldn't make us yanks say 'whole nine meters?' P.P.S. By the way, Black <[email protected]>, I believe the litre is actually a unit of volume, that is one cubic decimeter, i.e. 10 cms. cubed. My impression is that by contrast the quart is a unit of weight, originating from the pint, so the old saw, 'a pint's a pound the world round.' But alas controversy surrounds this axiom as well. It seems the ditty is only true if one is a traveling American. The one-time British pint is not the same as the present-day American pint. R. P.P.P.S. Mike: I suppose every one of use has to choose our wars. Sorry.
"I Anderson" <[email protected]> said: A litre (notice the spelling?) is what one day the US will recognise as the standard unit of liquid measurement, and hence join the rest of the world ;-) Ivan. > -----Original Message----- > From: Black [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 1:14 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>Hello List/ Pipette-/ & (drinking amounts) > > What is a liter? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Arthur Rambo <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:35 PM > Subject: Re: CS>Hello List/ Pipette-/ & (drinking amounts) > > > > Hello Igor, what is a pipette? I have drank approx. one > liter per day > > for several months, and had benefits as well -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
