Bill:
Thankyou for your
clarification.
This may explain why Australians confuse 'US Customary'
and 'UK imperial'.
I believe the contradiction in the Shampoo &
Conditioner measures I raised earlier (Monday 20 Jan
03 10:58) was United Kingdom verses United States standards. I went to
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html and converted ml to US fl oz & UK fl oz.
375 Millilitres equals 12.6803 Ounces
(US, fluid)
375 Millilitres equals 13.1982 Ounces (British,
fluid)
Before adopting metric Australia used the
UK imperial.
Regards,
Brenton Conway
PO Box 10021
BC
ADELAIDE SA 5000
Australia
Tel: +61 405 448
621
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Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Bill Potts
Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003
09:17
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:24534] RE: Non Metric
Recipe Du Jour
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]
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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
