----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Wade VMS Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: March 15, 2001 09:17
Subject: [USMA:11630] Metric Yardsticks
> >That's about as bad as the sign I saw in a Canadian hardware store.
> >They were selling "metric yardsticks".
>
> There is nothing wrong with this. Long after units like "yard" and "feet"
> are forgotten, you can still have things called "yardsticks" that measure
> distance, only they will be calibrated in meters, and nobody will realize
> why they were called this.
Or we could just start calling them metre sticks.
