Eventually the use of old units slowly becomes impossible or at least
impractical, when every trade has changed, and people get comfortable with
the new units. It happened in all metricated countries in the end. And that
is what the BWMA fears above all.
We get BBC America here, a cable network. Two of the more pleasant shows are "Changing Rooms" and "Ground Force", about teams of three works who come in and transform a room, or a garden, in a two-day period, to the surprise of someone who has been conned into going away while the work is done.
Several times they have shown the workers measuring things -- and it always seems to be in mm and kg. In the UK.
BWMA must be catatonic.
Carleton
