Carleton wrote in USMA 15100:
>In a message dated 2001-09-01 13:46:29 Eastern Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
>> In Canada it is legal to sell loose retail food by the kilogram or 100
>> grams, or by the pound or ounce. It has just struck me that one of the
>> reasons that most food is priced by the pound is that the price by the
>> kilogram looks too large, and "100 g" takes more space on the price tag
>> than "lb.". That would not apply if Metric Commission Canada had not
>> frowned upon hectogram, dekagram, and decigram. Pricing by the pound (lb.)
>>
>
>In quite a few delicatessens up there I've seen cheese and other things like
>that priced by the 100 g. 100 g takes up less room than "hectogram" and is a
>lot more understandable.
>
>Carleton
Hectogram is the English name of a unit. The symbol for that unit is "hg",
which is shorter than "100 g". The public would rapidly learn its value.
In Italy, I think it was in Pavia, I found in the farmers' market that the
hectogram was quite commonly used, and was called an "etto".
Joseph B. Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
