Just been watching a program on a UK channel 5 star, about a “bedroom tax”. This was the first time I’d heard of this tax. The guy paying the tax had to measure his room after reading in a British tabloid that any room less than 71 ft2 was not subject to this tax. So he got out his measuring tape (in feet) and proceeded to measure and came up with 7 feet 15 inches! Just goes to show that even people who use feet and inches have no idea how many inches in a foot. This goes well with the US students measuring on a ruler and assuming the 8th’s are decimals of an inch. A kid counts 5 inches and 4 eighths and comes up with 5.4 inches. Another reason to change to metric.
Mike Payne
