Re: [OT] Languages and the metric system

On 8/28/2024 1:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2024-08-28, John Dallman <jgd@cix.co.uk> wrote:

In article <van4uj$3fdl0$1@dont-email.me>,
clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
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For the record, I think it would be nice if the UK finally
completed the transition to purely metric for everything.

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Our recently ex-government held a consultation on reverting to Imperial
units for some consumer purposes. The response was very negative and the
idea was quietly abandoned.
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I saw that and it was a very nice thing to see it was so strongly rejected.
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With one major exception (see below[*]), long distances are still in
miles, but smaller distances tend to be purely metric. For example, it is
considered _very_ old fashioned by the people I interact with to say
a few yards instead of a few metres.
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[*] That major exception are the Ordnance Survey maps. In a remarkable
piece of foresight very uncommon in this country, the OS finished the
conversion of all maps from imperial to metric units decades ago.
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All OS maps today are purely metric. The OS coordinate system is also
purely metric and is _very_ nice to work with.

Then I'd get lost rather quickly ...
But, some consider me lost now ...
:-)
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