You might want to read this article I published over five years ago on the UKMA Metric Views blog:
http://metricviews.org.uk/2009/01/metric-user-friendly/ John F-L From: Harry Wyeth Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:23 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53860] Phil Chernack's message 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 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3950/7542 - Release Date: 05/22/14
