[Jewelry making - Article 00551] - Re: [Orchid] Metric system

[Pat Waddington]

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    In the UK we've been going metric for years - with stiff resistance
    since there is a recognition that older people simply cannot cope
    with it. It has made those of us, mostly middle-aged, that switch
    from one system to another all the time quite mentally agile!
    Greengrocers, for example, rebelled at having to mark prices per
    kilo, simply ignored the new law and continue to mark up in pounds (a
    couple were jailed for doing so but it didn't stop them). I can buy
    my gold and silver wire by the inch or the centimetre although
    diameters are given in millimetres, and other bullion by the gram or
    the ounce. Milk and beer are sold by the pint, but petrol by the
    litre. It is illegal to show distance on road signs in anything other
    than miles (and we LIKE driving on the left!). I buy meat by the kilo
    but calculate cooking times by the pound. But unlike NASA, we never
    confuse the two systems. 

    In twenty or thirty years time the Imperial system will have fallen
    into disuse, like ells and cubits, but I suspect the length of a
    cricket pitch will always be 22 yards or 1 chain. 

Pat


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