I also would appreciate hearing if AP "listened" to this suggestion:
*AP recommends in its Stylebook to spell out names of units and prefixes. I believe this practice is long obsolete as people encounter symbols of units and numbers daily, such as with grocery labeling or auto-parts packages. Often, people know those symbols but not necessarily the words they represent. * * * *Avoiding spelling the words saves paper space and ink, provides for understanding among languages, and eases reading. Finding numerical data in a text is a breeze.* * * *Please adjust the wording in the Guide to allow or, better yet, recommend the use of symbols. For example, just as the 5 in a statement such as* 5 kilowatthours *is allowed to be a symbol so should be the brief* 5 kWh*.* Stan Jakuba On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:22 AM, John M. Steele <[email protected]>wrote: > The Associated Press has begun accepting orders for the 2012 edition of > their Stylebook, the source of most metric usage errors in the media. At > $20.95 + $7.95 S&H, I am not rushing to buy. (Last year, I got a discount > through Amazon later in the summer). > > If any USMA member has access to the 2012 edition through their > organization, I would very much appreciate feedback on whether they have > made any of the seven corrections I recommended last year. My full letter > is a Word attachment to USMA 50894, still available on the archive. A > simple summary of the recommendations, which may be used as a checklist is: > > > > - *Bibliography*: No authoritative metric reference, consider NIST > SP330 > - *Kelvin*: Offset to degrees Celsius is incorrect, should be 273.15 > degrees > - *Kilometer per hour*: Abbreviation "kph" is wrong, should be "km/h" > - *Kilowatt hour*: Abbreviation "kwh" is wrong, should be "kWh" > - *Liter*: Definition is obsolete, properly defined as 1 cubic > decimeter > - *Nuclear terminology*: The "standard" units given are obsolete and > need update > - *Track and field*: Needs correct metric examples for field events > > > > > > NOTE: On the nuclear point, gray, sievert, and coulomb per kilogram should > replace rad, rem, roentgen. > > > > If anyone is able to check these for me, thanks in advance. > >
