On Sunday 29 February 2004 20:01, Big Chimp wrote: > There really is not such > unit as a "metric ton". It is a slang term created to distinguish it from > the tonne. Americans don't like the spelling tonne and thus try to > distinguish the ton of 907 kg from the ton of 1000 kg by adding the word > metric to the word ton. Extreme stupidity and arrogance is the only reason > behind this.
The term "metric ton" is necessary because if one verbally said "tonne" in the U.S. it would be ambiguous, and likely misunderstood as a short ton.
