Well, in either case, the original point falls to bits. Neither of the two countries match the original descriptor of 'the at-the-time most progressive nation on Earth'.
Nor does any other. It's simply much too simplistic a statement. K ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew > Peter Kirk scripsit: > > > Well, except two countries, or more than two if you have been following > > the "damn'd fools" thread. We British resisted Napoleon and we continue > > to resist his innovations like the metric system, though we are being > > forced to make a gradual change. > > By what I understand, the U.K. is far more metricated than the U.S., > where metrication is pretty much confined to wine and carbonated drinks, > and the latter only in 1-liter and 2-liter quantities. > > > Napoleon managed to impose and are still uniform all the way from Calais > > to Vladivostok (because even the Russians accepted his system for a > > while), even traffic rules (drive on the right, give way to the right), > > but are different in the UK. > > Yeah, you're still using the horseman-with-sword system rather than the > cart-drover system. > > -- > "[T]he Unicode Standard does not encode John Cowan > idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or private http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > use characters, nor does it encode logos http://www.reutershealth.com > or graphics." [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
