On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:21:02 -0500, "Stephen C. Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >----- 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. > Which is what we called them in school 30 years ago!! Chris -- Chris KEENAN UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
