Thanks Stephen for the report from the Caribbean.
The point you make of kmph and km/h shows we need to get the media and
others to use the SI symbols such as km/h instead of creating
abbreviations. This would make learning and usefulness easier, simpler and
more uniform. There is no need for two separate ways of expressing the same
thing. It's being done with the prefixes e.g. petaflops, megaflops, flops
etc for big computer speeds although flop(s) makes a great sounding word
easy to speak.
Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:46 AM
Subject: [USMA:39855] Adding to the big three
I've just come back from Grenada (I'm back in Barbados now) and can
confirm that that country is "mainly imperial"
I'm posting this as there was a discussion about the extent of metrication
in the caribbean some time back and I mentioned Barbados, St Lucia,
Bahamas, Montserrat and Antigua but had not gone to Grenada yet.
Two things stood out though:
- All the signs were decimal miles (no fractions and no yards)
- I saw one speed limit sign that said "20 mph" and underneath "32 kmph"
I suspect that point (2) was there because some far east cars had km/h
only on their dashboards.
SteveH
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