You may remember some time ago I e-mailed a German company magazine
about their use of non-metric units. Today I got a reply from the
Editor and author of one of the pieces:

>Dear Sir,
>
>I can understand that you being a member of the UK Metrication Assiciation
>and the US Metric Assoication fight for the usage of metric units. But
>actually they are not in use in the US. And when we started the
>international edition of agenda we decided to use american english so that
>explains why we use their units and expressions like "sq.m" instead of m2
>which is more popular in the US.
>
>But we will take your letter your letter as a good opportunity to discuss
>changing to english english which indeed makes more sense because with
>Thames Water we have more english readers now than american.
>
>Yours faithfullly
>Christoph Peck
>Agenda Editor

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UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/

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