I would suggest that efforts to metricate can benefit from practical use of appropriate style guide resources.
As much as anyone hopes to confirm that a particular choice of usage is correct, there exist a large number of different style guides.
What is important here is not that journalists might use a different style manual than that used by electrical engineers. What is important is that readers of style guides have appropriate information in support of good and best practices.
So a rule written for 'fewer exceptions' still has a need to establish a context.
On 2008 Jul 11 Fri DoY 193, at 11:58, Patrick Moore wrote:
Where does the "should" come from in the first place? The BIPM? The AP Style Guide? Chicago? Fowler? My high school typing instructor? Issues of usage, style, and typography are off-topic. That may be unintuitive for us because SI stimulates the same part of our brain as do rules of usage etc. - just ahunch.
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