The problem for pro-mets here is:
1) "The Independant" doesn't have a good size readership
2) Despite its name it's rather left-wing - which may be the reason behind
it's use of metric to a certain degree.
From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33172] Re: Independent (UK) all metric
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:40:59 -0400
In all, more than 150 temples have been identified. Constructed of earth
and wood, they had ramparts and palisades that stretched for up to half a
mile. They were built by a religious people who lived in communal
longhouses up to 50 metres long, grouped around substantial villages.
Archaeologists are now beginning to suspect that hundreds of these very
early monumental religious centres, each up to 150 metres across, were
constructed across a 400-mile swath of land in what is now Austria, the
Czech Republic, Slovakia, and eastern Germany.
Second, the central sacred area was nearly always the same size, about a
third of a hectare.
One village complex and temple at Aythra, near Leipzig, covers an area of
25 hectares.
Maybe my math is faulty, but the above excerpts showing both metric and
English in the article doesn't seem to add up to 100 %. I would think
miles are still used because they are still used on British roads. The use
of metres and hectares most likely are used because they are used in the UK
instead of their former units. This may be what the mess is all about;
mixing English and metric units together like this.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: Ezra Steinberg
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Saturday, 2005-06-11 03:35
Subject: [USMA:33171] Independent (UK) all metric
Here's an interesting story in its own right about a new discovery of
ancient civilization in Europe, but it also demonstrates The Independent's
apparently 100% metric editorial policy:
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=645976
Would that Tesco see things the same way ...
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