The Telegraph is a "heavy duty" centre-right broadsheet.
It's nickname is "The ToryGraph".
As was mentioned recently, the paper that comes close to being awarded "most
metric" is the left-leaning "Independant".
My wife accidentally bought it the other day and I had a read. It's
actually a mix of imperial and metric (about 50/50).
I noted that when people were quoted it was mainly imperial though.
From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33526] RE: July 4
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:12:26 -0400
No one needs to apologize.
It wasn't a newspaper, it was signs on the properties.
Speaking of newspapers, the Telegraph seems to describe things mostly in
imperial, at least in the bodies of stories.
Carleton
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 23:33
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:33517] RE: July 4
Maybe there are two styles on newspaper. One metric for the majority of
readers and one in imperial for pro-imperials. Or is it possible you got
one of those Australian implants mentioned on the other forum.
I would think if a person visits the UK and picks up a newspaper and looks
at the advertizements and sees only or mostly metric, then that is the way
it is. I'm sure Carleton can reference you to the newspaper he was looking
at and the what days issue it was and you can get a hold of a copy and see
for yourself. I'm sure Carleton will gladly accept you apology.
Dan
> Are you sure?
> Office buildings are almost always advertised in sq ft (and sold as
such).
> Rarely you see sq m as well as sq ft. Signs with sq m only are very
very
> rare.
>
> Houses, on the other hand, are sold not by sq ft but by length and width
> of each room. Most show ft/in but some have m too.
>
> When I sold my last house the estate agent brochure described my living
> room as :-
>
> "23ft, 3in long (30 m)"
>
> No-one questioned the fact that if I had a 30 metre long living room I
> would have made a lot more money on it! Not one person mentioned the
> mistake however my brochure would have gone out to hundreds of potential
> customers (the succesful ones being a young couple). The reason why the
> issue was not raised at al,l I believe, is obvious.
