[USMA:29389] To Pat Naughtin

[Chimpsarecute]

Pat,   You authored a very interesting piece on things not use if you don't like metric.  Would it be possible for you write a piece describing the metric encounters a typical Australian family will encounter during the course of the day?   For example:   Waking up and tuning into the morning news with reports all in SI including the day's weather.   Eating breakfast food packaged in rounded metric sizes   Driving to work in a metric car with metric dashboard display and roads signed in metric.   Stopping for petrol and the pricing and amount displayed in litres.   Buying oil and other fluids for the car in rounded metric amounts.   Being at work in an entirely metric environment if one works as an engineer or in manufacturing.   On the way home stopping at the super market and buying rounded metric sized pre-packaged foods   At the deli counter, ordering food priced and weighed out only in metric.   Coming home to a metric dinner and watching the evening news with metric reports, etc.     Also, include some instances where FFU is still encountered, and if the use seems to be in actual use of measurement or just trade names.  do Australians who end up using some FFU understand the FFU they use or do they just parrot what they have heard?     Euric