[USMA:53860] Phil Chernack's message

[Harry Wyeth]

I second what Phil wrote about not worrying about the minute; 5 K vs 5 
km or 5 KM or whatever. Or weight vs mass.  Or KG vs kg or kilos.  Or 
liter vs litre. Or however you want to pronounce kilometer.  Or "a half 
liter" vs "500 ml".  It may be nice to debate these fine points here, 
but it makes no difference whatever to what the USMA is trying to 
promote because no one outside this forum gives a hoot about these points.

If someone wants to talk about running 10 K races, great!  I use the 
term myself frequently when telling people distances because I know that 
it will probably be understood better than the full word.  I would sound 
silly if I referred to people "having a mass" of xyz.

I have said many times that if we can just get people to deal with 
liters, meters, and kilos, we would be home free.  All the rest is 
techie stuff to almost everybody.

HARRY WYETH