>My girlfriend just got back from a week in Ireland. Since she did not >buy any packaged goods and did not pay much attention to the distance >signs on the road, her impression was that Ireland is still Imperial >except for temperature. She says that because she heard everyone >continue to use "miles", "feet" (or perhaps "yards"), "pounds" (for >mass), etc. She visited Limerick, Cork, and Killarney, then returned >home via Shannon Airport. About five years ago I was in that same area and I did a lot of driving. I found that road signs used either SI or colonial units, often without identifying which was being used. I would have to guess, based on the magnitude of the value reported, whether a distance was in kilometers or miles. The languages of the road signs were also arbitrary: some were in Irish while others were in English. I had an interesting time trying to figure out where we were going, but everywhere was beautiful!
