I looked at the table and I observed also kilometer per hour. First, it is
incorrectly abbreviated as kph, second I beleive it creates confusion to put
it in a list of non-metric units as it is a metric unit.
Maybe we should include something that would explain the slang denomination
known as kph (kay pe aytch) instead. Or, maybe we should include a separate
list of metric units that are incorrectly used, abbreviated, pronounced,
etc.
I don't know what the others think, but I would remove kilometer per hour
from the list.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, 18 November, 2000 21:21
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:9243] Dennis Brownridge's Table of Non-SI Units
Dennis Brownridge has provided me with his table of non-SI units in use in
the United States, with permission to publish it on the SI Navigator site.
I have converted it to HTML format and have replaced the unique characters
for the degree symbol and for powers of 2 and 3 with superscripted ordinary
characters (lower case o, 2, and 3). The table still contains the Greek mu
character. I still haven't decided what to do about that (for the benefit,
for example, of Macintosh users).
If you simply go to the SI Navigator site (http://metric1.org), you'll see
that there's an announcement and a link on the home page. The link is to the
relevant entry on the Historical Document page. That entry, in turn,
contains the button to load the new page.
If you're too lazy to look at the introductory material, you can get to the
new page directly by clicking on http://metric1.org/nonsi.htm. Like all the
other SI Navigator pages, it contains the context-preservation JavaScript
(which automatically reloads it with the site banner and the menu frame).
If you want to look up a particular term, you may use your browser's Find
command, once you have loaded the page, or you may go to the Search Entire
Site section (via the main menu).
I look forward to your comments.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
