[USMA:35486] Re: Pleasure to hear the BBC

[Martin Vlietstra]

Ezra,   You are listening to the international version of the BBC - the local version is full of imperial units.  In much teh same way, the international version of CNN is (almost) fully metric, I believe that the local version is full of customary units. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ezra Steinberg To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: [USMA:35485] Pleasure to hear the BBC Tonight I listened to the science segment of the BBC World Service about tsunamis and the one that hit Asia recently.   Except for a couple of mentions of "miles" (to which they quickly added "kilometres"), the whole discussion was in metric only. What a contrast with any kind of American broadcast!   Maybe we'll get there over here, too ...   Cheers, Ezra