> You may not feel that the yard should be set equal to the metre (1:1), but in many respects, it already is. > > In many applications in the media, where the metre is used, the American Press and other news services regularly transliterate the names without converting the numbers. > > Thus a fire reported "....200 m down the road...." in Australia will be reported as 200 yards in the US press, not 218.7 yards. > > There are many instances of conversion errors in the press, but only those who pay attention notice them. Americans are really very poor when it comes to measurements. They think they know what their units mean, but they don't. They are just comfortable with the names. > > Eventually, all the imperial units will take on new rational metric values, as they did in Europe hundreds of years ago. Even the pound will change from 454 g to 500 g, the pint from 473 mL to 500 mL, and more. > > John > > --------------------------------------------- > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! > --------------------------------------------- > You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. > > Reply to this message: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=1091 > > Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list > > Return to "Metric America": > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica > ---------------------------------------------- > > Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: > http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C >
