On Friday 09 September 2005 16:35, Nat Hager III wrote: > Standard measure, on the other hand, is a grab bag of some 2,000 > not-always-in-sync measurement units such as cups and pecks that Frysinger, > who also runs a metrics tutoring business, dismisses as a hodgepodge. Terms > such as bushel are inexact enough that in metric countries they're used to > cheat.
Why do people call those units "standard" as if metric weren't standard? Metric is the standard by which other units are defined. > No, metrics isn't as poetic as the old English folk-based slurry of > measurements based on human limbs and the like, Frysinger agrees. But it's > worth pointing out that poetry is a system of meters. But poetic meter consists of feet ;) phma
