Martin, not sure if you're getting overexcited thanks to the England v USA match but I haven't contradicted anything you have said. I'm just explaining how things are 'said' by the car-loving community (petrol-heads, or piston-heads) in the UK. No need for manuals or books or whatever - just the enjoyment of 'life' ;-) At this moment it's England 1 - USA nil in the WC. ITV are going to get totally b*llocked for accidentally showing an advert right at the moment the goal was scored.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [USMA:47736] Re: Metric motors in the USA Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:04:03 +0100 Steve, I told you to read the SI manual. You would then understand that 1 mL = 1 cc. This should also be obvious from the fact that 1800 cc equals 1.8 litres. (BTW “1.8 litre” is an adjective, while “1.8 litres” is a noun). From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Humphreys Sent: 12 June 2010 14:41 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:47736] Re: Metric motors in the USA With a car it would have to be 1800 cc or 1.8 Litre (both pronounced singularly). the mL or ci versions mean nothing to me in this respect. Note - 1800cc would always be said 'eighteen hundred see see' - no thousands and no cubic anything. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:47731] Re: Metric motors in the USA Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:31:47 -0700 Bah, I have no problem with cc..... fl oz? I have a problem with. haha.... 1800cc, 1.8 liters, 1800 mL, doesn't matter...I'm all fine with it. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [USMA:47730] Re: Metric motors in the USA From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, June 11, 2010 7:50 pm To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> I was in the hospital two weeks ago (there were some cells in the prostate that didn't belong there so they took the whole thing out). The nurses kept talking about "cc" this and "cc" that and I kept replying in milliliters. As I said in a previous post, though, one advantage to cubic measure is that it easily helps one visualize "how much" - when I mentioned the escaping oil per day filling a box 10 m x 10 m x 80 m. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 11:10 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:47706] Re: Metric motors in the USA Martin, "cc" without some form of deprecation, is *CENSORED*! Do you acknowledge the fact that "cm^3 is sometimes incorrectly typeset as cc"? Of course you do. EAM, Inquisitor. > > On 2010/06/11, at 05:07 , Martin Vlietstra wrote: > > The European industry uses litres if only one > decimal place of precision is needed and cc if > more precision is needed... Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/
