On 2000-12-07 at 13:14, kilopascal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Feet is the common unit used. The only times yards are used, other than
> football, is when something is transliterated from metres.
True. Unlike in the U.K. where they normally use yards.
A story yesterday in the L.A. Times talked about gasoline prices rising
"about 30 cents a quart" in a certain Chinese province. That was also
an obvious translation of liter to quart since in the U.S. we don't
normally (ever!) quote gasoline prices in quarts.
