A funny example from Top Gear was when Jeremy Clarkson (one of the
presenters) was testing a new ultra high performance super car in Europe.
He had a left hand drive car with km/h speedo - I presumed that the UK
variant had not been produced in time for the test. When the camera settled
on the (enormously high figure) numbers on the speedo he says "That's not
miles per hour, by the way, that's in Euros". :-)
From: Michael Palumbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:38843] Re: Canadian shows are certainly better than US
programs
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:53:10 -0400
They tend to do this on UK TV shows as well, they'll pop back and forth
between Imperial/SAE & Metric measurements. Top Gear in particular is
notorious for this, given that England's roadways are still measured in
miles per (imperial) gallon.
I remember one episode in particular that I saw while in Prague on
business, two of the shows hosts travelled to Lillehammer, Norway, to
race a car against a bob sleigh. The track at Lillehammer is exactly 2
km, as is the access road right next to it. So for the entire segment,
they spoke of kilometres and centimetres.
As soon as that segment was over, they went right back to miles per
gallon. It was all very confusing, and reminded me a lot of the US.
-Mike
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Saw an interesting show from Canada about the Rockies. All the
scientists used metres and kilometres and so did the narrator.
Then I was surprised to hear the narrator use "feet" in the next
program about the Atlantic coast. I guess there are still transitions
at work.
Ezra
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