On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 00:09, Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it> wrote: > I've also always known them as "short ton" and "long ton" and I agree > whith your choice, but... > > actually "short ton" and "long ton" are the terms used in the U.S., while > AFAIK Brits distinguish between "imperial ton" and "cental ton", so maybe > we have a problem... > Yeah, in the UK we're more likely to use "imperial ton" if we need to make it clear we're talking about our ton and not the Merkin one. But (theoretically) the UK doesn't use imperial tons any more because they were excluded from terms used for trade in 1985. The UK went metric (apart from road signs in miles and beverages in pints).
I have no idea what a "cental ton" is. Should I drink more covfefe? It might not be a problem if we can get editor presets to offer UK/US/metric tons as options and do the work behind the scenes. Or perhaps we now understand why the wiki said metric units only. :) -- Paul
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