Martin,

Thank you for the link to your fine article.

I was curious about the one Imperial hold-out in SA after the completion of 
metrication: expressing people's heights in feet and inches. Is this reflected 
in any of the official documents used in SA? Or is this just "street" usage?

If so, any thoughts (from anyone) on why this would be the case and how to move 
people from that usage to metric?

Ezra

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Martin Vlietstra 
  To: U.S. Metric Association 
  Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:59 AM
  Subject: [USMA:41452] RE: Use of kW


  I notice that this advertisement has a South African website address.  I 
lived in South Africa when they introduced the metric system.  My observations 
on the South African change-over were published on the UKMA website - 
http://www.ukma.org.uk/whatis/sa.htm.

   


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  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Payne
  Sent: 19 July 2008 04:59
  To: U.S. Metric Association
  Subject: [USMA:41451] Use of kW

   

  http://www.acmotorhomes.co.za/VWT5.htm

   

  Good SI usage.

   

  Michael Payne
  1 Thorton Court
  Potomac Falls VA 20165
  USA

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