On Monday 29 April 2002 4:30 pm, you wrote:
On Monday 29 April 2002 17:22, hwm@onetel.net.uk wrote:
The does not change the prices, it only makes it more transparent. It avoids having to multiply or divide by 1,60 or so. But on the other hand English people are used to odd factors or divisors such as 16, 12, 8, etc. After all -- they call it common sense -- multiplying by 10 is much more difficult than multiplying by 16!
I thought that had changed.
I know the pound was decimalized in the late 60s/early 70s, and from watching english TV I hear more and more people using the metric system. I don't know if the road signs are still in miles. Are they?
I thought the US was the last bastion of the imperial units.
Change? England? Scotland? Wales? Northern Ireland? United(?) Kingdom?! We do not know the meaning of the word! Our currency is decimalised (The Euro being decimated) but we still measure distances in miles, drink beer (both bitter and that tasteless fizzy yellow stuff) in pints, they are trying to make us buy food in grams but we still prefer pounds and ounces (well some of us) and we are not yet grown up enough to be allowed to elect our head of state. For some reason we like it this way! Peter