I am certain the '1600 versions' mentioned by Mr. Bennett are in fact dead. When I use the term 'ifp' without a qualifier I always mean British Imperial and US Customary. Outside this list I usually call present-day non-metric: British units, American units, Imperial, USC.
Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: [USMA:20018] Re: Some of you might find this interesting ifp = inch/foot/pound ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: [USMA:20016] Re: Some of you might find this interesting 2002-05-12 When you use the term "ifp", what version of ifp are you referring to? There is no standard ifp, there are many versions. If you are going to use this term, can you be more specific as to which version you are referring to? We want to be precise. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2002-05-11 09:02 Subject: [USMA:20007] Re: Some of you might find this interesting The authors of the 18th century's pre-revolutionary Encyclopedie (Diderot cs) also covered weights and measures and they did not know how things would develop in the future. They hoped for unification. But I saw some tables of length and weight in the Encyclopedie and they used British units as standard. This was understandable and justified as British units in the pre-metric era were the closest approach to a standardized system. Don't let the BWMA know that! They will use what was justified then as propaganda for today's issues. And the Cousteau's who speak ifp in heavily accented English in their films - I saw one of their films recently for a time, then I switched off with disgust - and the idiots from Maporama can not derive any justification for their lunacy from the choice the Encyclopedists made. The latter were right, the former are bootlickers without a shred of self respect in their bodies, the fifth column. What do NLG and Cousteau's films also have in common? The NLG magazine and Cousteau's films are beautiful. However, I have been seeing more metric programs on NLG television for some time. Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
