I know the following: Freedom 2 Measure, Americans for Customary Weights and Measures and WAM (We Aint Metric). I do not know whther the last group still exists. It is mentioned in Alders book about the meridian measurement. Freedom to Measure has a website, but I cannot remember its URL right now. It can be found on the links page of the BWMA website.
I bought Alders book last week in Dublin in the renowned Easons bookshop at O'Connel Sreet. He uses USC units (Paris is 30 miles away and this or that mountain is 6000 ft high) in a book that has the metric system as its subject. That is the same as cursing in a church. He should have used metric and old European units where appropriate and put a conversion table to US units at the back of the book. I assume that many people who will read that book are metric- literate. I am going on a day trip to the Ulster-American Folk Park to-morrow. I want to wish all the American friends on the list a memorable Fourth of July. I do not know why, but Alders has cleverly avoided to give the date of the French metric law of 1837 that took the metric system off the brink of the abyss and killed of Napoleons monstrosity. I will remember that event tomorrow as well. Greetings from Belfast, Han __________________________________________________________ http://www.wanadoo.nl/
