Needless to say the usual nonsense is back here referring to all things UK (eg
'no supplementary imperial on UK goods' - 'roads partly metricated' - that sort
of thing) but the other recent suggestion is temperature.
I'm fully aware (being from here) how much 'C' is used in reports etc but this
weekend temperatures are going to soar - and the media have done the usual
predictable thing - quoting that we will hit 'temperatures in the 90's' (I was
awoken to this exclamation from the Radio this morning - BBC Radio London).
I still find it an interesting quirk that we Brits do that 'switch' whenever
the temps get hot. You'd never hear "Well temps will be plunging to 32
degrees" and mean Fahrenheit - however when the sun has it's hat on, something
stirs in us! :-) Could that *ever* happen in the USA? Say if the met office
there decided to push the C-scale a bit more (bear in mind that we still use
mph for wind speed - so it really is a mix)
I - for one - will be enjoying it - Celsius or Fahrenheit!
I suppose it's up to Schweisthall now to show a internet link to some
hairdresser saying the word 'celsius'! ;-)
_________________________________________________________________
http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/
Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now
