> > I similarly use acres, furlongs and guinees. I absolutely REFUSE to > > work in metric weights and distances which remain completely > > meaningless to me. I also use the word 'twelvemonth' from time to > > time, as in "I haven't seen him in a twelvemonth".
I think that's just fine for normal communication, but this should be food for thought about servicing international markets. Even if the receiving party knows what these things are, it communicates something else the the receiver that you might use local vocabulary or colloquialisms for official communication. Back before I became a souless business person, I taught some high school. There was a British story that referred to rubber boots as "rubbers" repeatedly. That's not something you can trot out in a high school class without expecting disruption ;-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
