This is definately an age dependent term: Any Canadian who started school after 1975 calls a long thin piece of wood or metal calibrated in linear measurement units "metre sticks" and not "yard sticks"... even if they have a tendency to use feet and inches in conversation. We have our teachers using consistent terminology to thank for that. greg >>> "Stephen C. Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-03-15 20:21:02 >>> ----- 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.
