<But I like the word millibar over hectopascal. The latter is overly long and odd-sounding. "Bar" sounds of barometric, which everyone knows has to do with air pressure. Most people know that "milli" means 1/1000 or something small like that. But "pascal"? And "hecto"? Hey, Bub, watch your language!>
You have a very good point there, Harry. One of the things that broke me out of my "SI purism" was finding out that many European companies, organizations, and individuals still use pre-SI unit names. The bar is still often used to denote pressure in tires and hydraulic equipment (as well as in Russian rocket engines, although the Russians also use the *really* obsolete kilogram of force instead of the newton to measure rocket thrust). Also, many Europeans (probably mostly older citizens) still use degrees Centigrade. -- Jason
