When India adopted the use of currency & change to SI on 1956 December 28, as a followup Rajagopalachari (Raja ji) advised this to Nehru cabinet that SEER be called Kilogram- to popularise the adoption of SI and ease out local weights.
Jon Mercer's idea in USMA 28270 is perfectly sound.....???This suggestion is only likely to take the US/Canada and throw back the adoption/popularisation of Metric Reform just about a 100 years. On the contrary, a customers' demand of 1/4, 1/2, 1 pound of 'commodity' be met with 125g, 250g or 500g to make them learn - especially the children who are frequent BUYERS.
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20040113/12:46(decimal) PM(IST)
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Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
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From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:28273] Re: 500 g Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:48:05 -0500
Jon Mercer's idea in USMA 28270 is perfectly sound:
Hello i have an idea it may sound crazy but i'm going to say it anyway. What do you think of the idea of calling 500 g of food 1 lb? i am thinking of the U K and even in Canada it would make things easier if people are going to continue asking for things by the lb.� Especially when customers ask for halves and quarters.� All the store clerk would have to do is weigh 250 g or 125.� I believe China did this with one of their old measurements for mass they kept the same name but metricated it. I wonder how that has worked.� John. �������
Holland, which was the first country to go metric, which they did in 1816, and fully metric in 1832, adopted 500 g as a "pond". I have had to argue with a Dutchman that a pound is only 454 g. I know from personal knowledge the 500 g is known as a pound in France and Germany.
Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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