[USMA:33485] Re: London terror

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In a message dated 2005-07-08 08:41:09 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point being made was that millions of people world-wide heard an English woman saying metres.  These people are not going to listen to radio stations looking for people who don't say metres.  The impression she would leave in the minds of listeners is that the people of the UK freely and casually speak metres. We aren't using the occasion of the attacks to battle over units, but to express an observation.  Others have expressed the same observation. Yes, if I am pro-metric and a fan of metric I could be called a fanatic.  A fanatic promotes his views.  Just like you are a fanatic of imperial.  If you weren't you wouldn't be a daily poster to the BWMA site or here. Dan Actually I seriously doubt that 'the impression she would leave in the minds of listeners is that the people of the UK freely and casually speak metres.'  I would go so far as to say that most people didn't notice if she said metres or yards or cubits.  Honestly, in these current events I would not have notice and I wouldn't have cared.  My concern was for the people of London and measurement systems was so far off that I wouldn't have noticed.   Now what unit people use under such conditions is interesting and shows how they really think; but not so soon to such a horrible incident.   Richard