[USMA:36236] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric?

[Stephen Humphreys]

Up until last year I worked at Guinness, and they (my Irish collegues) spoke 
"mixed".

From: David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Subject: [USMA:36235] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:00:11 +0000

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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