On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:41:39 -0400, PARKYN JOHN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Twenty years ago I would say to little Jimmy, "Please open the window a >few centimetres". However, you can hear teachers even today say, "Open >the window a few inches". Our 20-30 something folks are conservative... >I am more metric than my son. I visited the Voteserve.com site yesterday to see if there were any UK metrication polls. There was one (under UK politics, I think) asking if it was right for criminal action to be taken against non-metric traders. There were (I think) 14 votes saying it was wrong, and 7 saying it was right. More significantly, in the breakdown of votes, all those who said it was OK were in the 18-50 bracket. All of those up to 18 and all those above 50 said it was wrong. Chris -- Metrication information: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK legislation, EC Directives, Trading Standards links and more
