On Tuesday 26 February 2008 22:19, Ziser, Jesse wrote: > On the one hand, I don't see why someone opposed to EU membership would > feel pressed to oppose metric because of that. Peru, Uzbekistan, South > Korea, New Zealand, West Xylophone, and Zimbabwe don't seem likely to join > the EU and yet they've gone metric. Presumably they had other reasons for > doing so.
Is West Xylophone a country? I thought it was just a province in the Federation of Marimba and Glockenspiel - which is discontiguous, being located in two different continents. And I'm not aware of Marimba and Glockenspiel ever having been non-metric; they've always been using the hertz. Pierre
