I cannot comment on what is happening in Ireland, but here in London, I
did overhear some Irish men talking on a train recently, and they were
using metric, talking of distances in metres. No imperial was used at all.
David King
Buy UKMA's report "A Very British Mess" ISBN 0750310146
http://www.ukma.org.uk/Docs/pubs.htm
Avoid confusion with conversion, just learn to think metric!
http://www.thinkmetric.org.uk
Ivan Kochnev wrote:
Dear Metric Fellows,
I just recently started editing a newsletter of the company I work
for. In the "Did you know" section I publish 1 mertic fact a week. The
week after next week is St. Patric's day. I will publish a short
article about that. My question to everyone here is:
Is Ireland ALL Metric? How hard was the metrication conversion and
when was it started and completed? Are the road signs (often discussed
here) in km/h ?3
Your help will be highly appreciated!
By the way: I discovered dual units tape measures on the flea market
for a dollar. I buy yhem there and resell them at work with no
markup/profit. People seem to like them, and I think this is a very
simple practical step to make people more familiar and used to the
metric units of length.
Since I do not post here very often, may I suggest the following:
Some of the postings have aconfidentiality notice at their ends. Could
you please skip those?
Have a nice day!
Yours,
Ivan Kochnev
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