on 2002-12-03 00.22, Howard Ressel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

<snip>
> This is probably why we
> are stuck with 1 l and 2 l large sizes
<snip>

Dear Howard and All,

As I scanned this, I read it as 'with 11 (eleven) and 21 (twenty-one) large
sizes'. I had to stop and go back to read it more carefully when I realised
that what I was reading didn't make sense to me.

I'm not saying that what you wrote doesn't make sense � it does � but I
found it easy to miss-read.

I suppose that this is the reason that we decided in Australia, to use the
capital letter L as the preferred symbol for the litre, and mL as the
preferred symbol for the millilitre.

Your statement would then read:
'This is probably why we are stuck with 1�L and 2�L large sizes'.

Cheers,

Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia

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