On Aug 2 , at 4:41 AM, Han Maenen wrote (quoting an anti-metric
newspaper report):
So Christopher Robin, Piglet and Winnie-the-Pooh are being evicted
from the Hundred Acre Wood. From now on, it is to be known as the
40.45 Hectare Forest.
No, no, no!
That's not what is really happening.
In reality, that Woods was a nice round 40 hectares and was known by
the country folk (and Pooh Bear) as "The South Forty Woods" (south 40
hectares, of course).
Since 40 hectares is 98.841 acres, they just rounded it off to 100
acres when they converted it to Ye Olde English units for the literary
value (read that "old fashioned value").
Moving forward from the old fashioned to the modern (the modern metric
system), we can now once again call it "the Forty Hectare Wood".
:-)
Ha, ha!
Seriously, no one is suggesting that we convert the title of Jules
Verne's classic "20 000 Leagues Under the Sea" to either "69 046.8
miles" or "111 120 km", are they? Where do these nuts get their
strange ideas?
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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