The discussion on this list ranges far and wide from church bell ringing sometimes:
1. Carleton writes, > The USA is still stuck with Fahrenheit (out of stubbornness) Yeah - is Barack going to fix that too?? Can't complain about the weather here. It was a beautiful warm sunny afternoon yesterday - during my lunchtime jog I wore shorts and T-shirt for the first time this year, and was pleasantly warm. Then in the evening the sky must have been incredibly clear, because the stars were so bright, Orion standing out like a cluster of searchlights even above the house lights and PIRs of the neighbours. Superb. MBD 2. On 27 January 2009 at 8:28, Mark Davies said: > Carleton writes, > > > The USA is still stuck with Fahrenheit (out of stubbornness) They also impose imperial volume measurements on metric Canada. My son had no concept of '5 cubic feet' when he went to buy a fridge. I suggested he thought of his grandmother cubed. AW 3. > Presumably there are folks of an age in most of the metricised (pace) > English-speaking world whose ways are stuck in what they learned in > their youth, as well. > > Don Morrison <[email protected]> Not my dad, now 95. He's quite happy with temperatures in Celsius now. Bruce
