My reaction sent to the Telegraph on the article Stone me!...:
A.C. Sherman: "Hurrah for Imperial Measures! Why is it that we always seem to
have to adopt continental ideas and they never adopt ours?"
Not true whatsoever. We have adopted English as the global language of
communication; English is a mandatory examination subject in all post-primary
schools in mainland Europe. It is even taught in primary schools here.
The continentals never accepting anything British.. It's exactly the other way
around! You mean of course, that the continent should adopt the English
language AND the Imperial system! As for me, the second part, no way, never,
ever. I am a proud user of the metric system. And I like to use metric units of
British origine like the watt, the joule, the kelvin, the volt, etc. I honour
and acknowledge the priceless contributions made to metric by UK and US
scientists.
Last but not least, someone should explain to me how it is possble to calculate
mentally how often 6s 4d go into £123 9s 9d?
