Does anyone know what is the story behind this capitalization?
I know that the SI tolerates the use of capital L for liter but I see more
and more attempts to use capital letters for metric abbreviations in the US.
Too many packages display the milliliter as a megaliter; the sport events
are in KM rather than km (that is when they are not just in K).
In SI, capitals are used only for units that represent a proper name (Joule,
Ampere, Hertz etc.). Is there an objective reason for using L instead of l
in North America?
Thanks,
Adrian
