At 12:08 PM 1/29/2002 +1100, Pat Naughtin wrote: > > My contention has been unchanged for quite a while: the USA *is* > > metricating already. It is going slowly, but it is most definitely > happening. > >I agree with you completely on this point. As an outside observer it seems >to me that the USA has already begun many journeys to metrication in many >different fields of endeavour.
I'm glad to hear this. Some on the list think we are making no progress at all, and that mystifies me. >> > Given that the USA is the only country of note that is still not metric... > >I would emend your first line by deleting the words 'of note'. It would then >read: > >Given that the USA is the only country that is still not metric I know this is going over old ground, but apparently I am a bit slow on this point. I thought that Myanmar and Liberia were still using English units. I would be delighted to remove the "of note" if it is accurate to do so. > > Someone else on this list has pointed out that much of the underlying > > (i.e., non-consumer) industry in the USA is already metric. > >I think that might have been me. I will attach below a piece I wrote >describing the 'already metric' issues in daily life in the USA. Probably was you. Jim Elwell
