Dear All, >From time to time one or other of the contributors to this list refer to the drop-by-drop approach to metrication.
Some are supporters of the drop-by-drop approach while others denigrate it. Recently I was reading 'The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches'. When Brian MacArthur edited this collection (in 1993) he clearly had in mind the drop-by-drop approach that public speeches have on social change when he selected this small section of a speech given by Robert Kennedy in 1966 as his frontispiece. 'Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.' I couldn't help but think of these words of Robert Kennedy's in a metrication context. Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia
