Thanks Robert, It seems to me that the words, 'we settled on' might cover a whole lot of secret reasons that the writer was a little too coy to share with us.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 2003-07-19 13.56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2003 July 18 > A book review by the author of the book appears in the May 2003 > issue of Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society page 660: > The Rough Guide to Weather (Penguin 2002). I quote "Most > American weather books have stuck to English units of measurement, > but the United States is virtually the only country still using > this system. Since Rough Guides are distributed throughout the > English-speaking world, it was imperative to include metric units. > In fact, the British editors needed some convincing that English > units should be included at all! After some debate, we settled > on including conversions for every mention of temperature, wind > speed, and the like, with metric units followed by English." > > Robert Bushnell >
