So it makes no sense to say two thousand thirteen. If we were consistant, it would be twenty thiirteen.
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From: "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 10, 2013 8:19 pm
Subject: [USMA:52484] Errors in Grammar
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
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The latter is particularly annoying, especially when companies like Shell and Ford get it wrong in the advertising.
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That's because people don't know the difference between affect and effect. They also don't know the difference between further and farther.
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Of course, the great irony is that "verb" is a noun. :)
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It doesn't matter anyway, we're about 30 years late but we will all be speaking Newspeak soon enough. :)
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(the funny thing is I think Orwell used metric in "1984")
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Carleton MacDonald <carlet...@comcast.net> wrote:
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> An interesting point. The venerable Webster's Unabridged Second Edition,
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