Han reported in USMA 17121: >These articles appeared in the Irish Times to-day. I have also found proof >that the Britsh Guardian is not metric at all. Some Guardian non-metric >articles are in the Irish Times to-day. The IT is always metric in covering >European news, and that can be found in some of the articles below. In >covering the fires in Australia (go to http://www.ireland.com for >this) the Guardian uses Imperial. Covering the euro in The Netherlands and >Belgiuma as well. Go down to "A question of national identity" from the >Guardian Newsservice: "It will be a very good thing on holiday," said Steve >Troeuer, a Belgian builder, withdrawing his first euros in Riemst, a >non-descript village five miles from the Dutch border. - (Guardian Service) >There is also a European edition of the Guardian, specifically targeted at >continental Europeans, and printed in mainland Europe, which is ifp through >and through. A map of France, for instance will have a scale in miles only, >and not very long ago its European weather forecasts were in Fahrenheit. The >covering of the Tour de France in the British and the European editions is >always Imperial only. I have the impression that this otherwise progressive >newspaper is attempting to'educate' us so that we may be weaned off metric >and into ifp in the long run.
The Guardian Weekly has world-wide circulation. The copy that I receive is printed in Montreal. It is thoroughly metric. I suspect that the Guardian is neutral on the matter of measurement, using whatever system it imagines its readers would be most at home with. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
