Be aware that you might get the usual stuff about the Daily Mail being a right wing rag (the usual mistake of 'if you prefer imperial you're right wing - if you prefer metric you're left wing') - to an extent that a recently joined 'contributor' has used German nazi style words to describe the Daily Mail elsewhere (I kid you not). However - you'd find the same vocabulary in the Daily Mirror (which is left leaning) and probably even the Morning Star (Britains only official daily communist paper!).
Incidentally - if this item was covered by any of the television stations here then they'd use the same terminology. In fact a lot of recent 'real life' style documentaries would be worded as such. Regards SteveH If someone follows up this thread with a claim that I have said that UK TV is 'exclusively Imperial' or that my sole purpose above is to create a (how's it called?) 'half-truth' that people 'only deal in imperial' and 'never use metric ever' then simply discard the nonsense. Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:20:44 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:44691] Nothing but Imperial Ran across this article today online in The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1170348/The-50-year-old-mother-spent-10-000-surgery-look-like-daughter.html While this article offers us more than one lesson, it certainly illustrates Stephen's point about the absence of SI in today's Britain in various quarters. Ezra _________________________________________________________________ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from one place – Learn more! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/137984870/direct/01/
