Brenton: I note that, in your email to Richard Rowand, you refer to "U.S. imperial."
You should note that U.S. measures and Imperial measures are different and there is, in fact, no such thing as "U.S. imperial." The most commonly accepted term for U.S. measures is "U.S. Customary." It differs from "Imperial" (which is British) in quite a few ways, including (but, by no means limited to) the values for pints, quarts, gallons, fluid ounces, tons, and bushels. And, of course, it does not include the peculiarly British "stone" and "hundredweight." The commonly-accepted term that is applicable to both U.S. and Imperial measures is "inch/pound." Around here, we use some less acceptable terms, including FFU (Fred Flintstone Units), for any inch/pound measures, and WOMBAT (Way Of Measuring Badly in America Today), for U.S. Customary. An alternative interpretation of WOMBAT (Waste Of Money, Brains And Time) could be said to apply to inch/pound generally. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brenton Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 14:12 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:24533] Non Metric Recipe Du Jour Importance: High I received a reply to my second email sent to Recipe Du Jour. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Rowand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 20 January 2003 22:19 To: Brenton Subject: Re: Metric Importance: High While I personally feel that America should adopt metric usage, my recipe software doesn't display or figure both imperial and metric. My apologies for the inconvenience. At 08:48 PM 1/19/03, you wrote: -----Original Message----- From: Brenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 15 January 2003 12:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Metric Importance: High Dear Sirs, RE: http://www.recipedujour.com/ I read about your website in an article in our Sunday newspaper. After I subscribed to your daily recipes, I noted they are all in the US imperial system. As I have been educated on the metric system, I have been frustrated that it has been necessary for me to change your measurement settings from US imperial to metric in order to follow the recipes. Whilst I understand that the USA is the only major country which has retained the imperial system of measurement, Australia and other countries that you send your emails to have been metric for many decades. I believe your site should also be available in the metric system for those countries which have made this productive change. Could you please advise why your recipes are not available in metric units? Regards, Brenton Conway PO Box 10021 BC ADELAIDE SA 5000 Australia Tel: +61 405 448 621
