Noted the BWMA 'wheel' with "feet & inches", "pounds & ounces" and "pints & gallons" printed around its perimeter. By conservative count, British Measure embraces 10 [ten] disparate measures for the physical quantitiy - length (inches, feet, yards, fathoms etc.). By conservative count, British Measure embraces 7 [seven] disparate measures for mass. By very conservative count, BM employs 10 [ten] more-or-less unrelated units for volume. For power, people must be prepared to deal with 5 [five] different dialects (not counting watts, kilowatts, megawatts etc.). To converse in area problems, at least 6 [six] different expressions are in play - including the ludicrous 'acre'. Seems to me that BWMA ought to design a new wheel! A much BIGGER wheel. Why would otherwise rational people defend such a quagmire of units when a coherrent SYSTEM is in general [World] use and available to all but the most determinably insular? If there is an answer to this question surely, it would include the restoration of Pounds, Shillings and Pence for monetary measure. Duncan
