Ian Lynch wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 09:43 +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
USians will come around at some point. Canada used to have the imperial
system and now it's metric. The UK is in a transition period. When the
current adult generation is dead, the UK will be entirely metric.
Where it matters. I still think we will ask for pints of free beer for
some time to come :-).
Ian
A pint and a half-litre are essentially the same, at least as far as
one's thirst is concerned, but asking for a half-litre is both
cumbersome and unpoetic.
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