"P.S. The Rank Organisation has made great movies."
Yes - but I always find it funny that what started life as a Christian
educational film service went on to make the "Carry on" films!! (I do hope
the Americans on this list know what carry-on films are)
Back to the subject of idioms:
From an "in the middle" point of view I would suggest not trying to stop
people using idioms that contain imperial words whilst still trying to
convince people to switch to metric. You may lose possible convertees doing
that.
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:39055] Re: Non-metric idioms and figures of speech
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:42:48 +0000
"fuel economy" instead of "mileage", "area" instead of "acreage", "length"
instead of "footage" - it can be done.
cm
P.S. The Rank Organisation has made great movies.
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From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> >From: Scott Hudnall
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "U.S. Metric Association"
> >Subject: [USMA:39044] Re: Non-metric idioms and figures of speech
> >Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:19:25 -0700
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> > 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.
> >
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> 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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