Re: NEC-LIST: Imperial metrics in the UK

Folks:

Actually, in Europe and other non-US ( and perhaps UK) places, they like to
refer to auto fuel use in liters/kilometer. Less is often conceptually better!

ed sayre
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At 09:54 AM 3/3/2003 -0800, Dan Bathker wrote:
>Nearly all thirsty adults worldwide understand "pints"
>and some underage people too
>the Brits had a lot to do with that.........
>
>At 08:18 PM 3/1/2003 +0000, David Jefferies wrote:
> >Dear List,
> >
> >In response to Jim Lux, my son is 11 and claims
> >"not to understand feet, inches, pounds, stones"
> >although he does understand pints as that is what
> >his consumption of milk, about 24 a week, comes in, but then,
> >they are Imperial pints which are 20 fl.oz. against the
> >US pint which is only 16. (Don't compare miles per
> >gallon!)
>SNIP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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