From: Scott Hudnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:39044] Re: Non-metric idioms and figures of speech
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:19:25 -0700
I think words persist long after anyone know their meaning. For instance,
video is mostly digital these days, and measured in by time index in
seconds, rather than by the foot - but the term "footage" still persists.
I used to work for UK company Rank and they expressed film manufacture in
footage in their final accounts to shareholders.
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