--- Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
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