With the further irony that warning road signs are required to be placed at various prescribed distances from the posted hazard (such as 400 meters ahead, 200 meters ahead, etc.) while those very same signs are required to state that metric distance in yards (e.g. 400 yards, 200 yards, etc.)
-- Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Davis" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 12:42:06 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:46644] And, by the way...... .....although, again, admittedly rare, newspapers and books in the UK have been known to use kilometres as well as miles. Yes, all signposts on UK public roads are legally required to read in miles and feet (although this is not always the case) but some publcations, particularly newspapers, will happily mix kilometres with miles ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Davis To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:32 PM Subject: [USMA:46643] Re: Burma "I can assure you that almost all publications, and other media outlets, would use miles over here. Based on the non-metrication of our roads I'd guess." Except for private roads of course, which can use metric signs if they wish. And though it is admittedly pretty rare, you can find mixtures of metric and imperial on British road signs....bridge heights, for example, can often be in metres other than, or as well as, feet. A statement on the sorry mess that measurement is in this country, unfortunately. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Humphreys To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 7:10 PM Subject: [USMA:46629] Re: Burma Not sure. Some publishers use kiolmetres for international books. Perhaps it's something like that. Like the way 'BBC World' would say 'The accident happened 3 kilometres from the junction' with the exact same feature being broadcast as 'The accident happened 2 miles from the junction' in domestic BBC stations. You mention it as a excerpt - was the spelling 'metER' as you mention or 'metRE'? I can assure you that almost all publications, and other media outlets, would use miles over here. Based on the non-metrication of our roads I'd guess. Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:34:26 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:46627] Re: Burma But then how does that explain why they gave the distance only in kilometers and not both kilometers and miles? -- Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 5:40:34 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:46622] Re: Burma Ezra:"I noted in one of their (free) excerpts from another part of the book that they referred to the length of a particular railway journey in kilometres, which I presume was done for the benefit of their (UK) readers." Surely you mean 'miles' (UK tracks being in miles and UK citizens usage). km would be there for Australia for example. Not got a Hotmail account? Sign-up now - Free We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now
