Euric,
I call on your superior advice yet again (sorry about this).
My local health authority is doing a "Swim a mile" competition. I
need to contact them to tell them that "The UK is a metric country" and
inform them that "only old people know imperial".
I should tell them to change the competition so that it says the well
used, often quoted and correcly pronounced "kilometre" instead of the
redundant "mile" that no-one uses.
What I fear is that with so many kids and young people getting
involved they might all start using "mile" in their day to day speach.
The swimming pool itself is definetly metric because its "olympic
length" and so any enthusiast could come along and use a tape measure down
its length to measure its in nice round �m. And maybe go for a swim too.
However I was horrified to see the depth expressed on shiny new signs
in feet and inches (with metric underneath, smaller). Considering "The UK is
a metric country" why do they think that kids will know their height in
ft/in? Of course they don't! That's about as likely as an Australian surfer
measuring his surfboard in inches!
We need to prevent this small outbreak of imperial measures, so I'd
like your advice on how to do this.
