When I was in Ireland this summer I saw one strange thing: Irish Rail is renewing the distance markers along the railways but they have not been changed to kilometres. So I saw a lot of new markers, all in miles! Totally contrary what has been done on the roads. Maybe Tom has an explanation for that. The shops that sell carpets, tiles etc. still oppose metric. I have to see the first shop of that kind in Ireland which uses metric units rationally. Some shops give the dimensions of carpets in metric and the price in euros per square yard! It is probably marketing nonsense that decrees that the square yard be used, as pricing by the square metre looks more expensive.
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, 2009, November 05 17:33 Subject: [USMA:46117] Re: Ireland So, nu ??? What did you observe there regarding metric usage? :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hooper" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:00:39 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:46116] Ireland Just got back from Ireland and re-subscribed to this list.
