Pat Naughtin wrote in USMA 15722: >This morning an item in 'The Age' , a Melbourne daily, read as follows: > >'BELFAST. Police arrested six people yesterday after discovering a >60-kilogram bomb in a Catholic village near Omagh, scene of the deadliest >attack in Northern Ireland's conflict. Police raided the home in >Sixmilecross, eight kilometres west of Omagh, on Wednesday night and >discovered the bomb hidden in a metal milk churn.' > >I thought you might like to check the journalist's conversion from miles to >kilometres, and to mull on the matter of the resistance of names like >'Sixmilecross' from any change to SI.
Never give it a moment's thought. Don't rewrite Tennyson's "Half a league, half a league onward rode the six hundred" nor Judas's "thirty shekels of silver". Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
