--- 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.

See http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/alphabetofnations for more 
information.



      
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