"Carter, Baron" wrote on 2002-08-15 12:12 UTC: > Unfortunately, the alternative is referred to as "English Units". Again, > perpetuating the myth that metric is not English and therfore 'foreign'.
I just sent them a friendly feedback noting that since English people use Celsius temperatures today, "US Customary Units" versus "Standard Units" would seem to be more timely and appropriate terminology. http://www.weather.com/ Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
