Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:44:49 -0500

From: Molly Dickmeyer dickmeye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JBLSMTP.PHL.LRPUB.COM

Subject: Re: candy bars and measurements -Reply



The inches/pounds/etc. system of measurement used in the US, and to

some extent elsewhere, is referred to, I think, as either the

"English" system (although while an inch is an inch, a pint in

England is not the same as a pint in the US) or simply as the

"common" or "conventional" system: it more or less grew rather than

being codified the way the metric system was. Of course, everything

is now done in metric terms: the official definition of the inch is

that it equals 25.4 millimeters.



Vicki--guess we crossed posts. See my previous post on "conventional"

and on "US-British" vs. "English".



(By the way, Britain will be officially converting to the metric

system on Sunday.)



By the way, didn't the US officially convert to the metric system

about 15 or 20 years ago? (I remember the hoopla when I was in

school). It just didn't take--will it be more likely to do so in

Britain?



Molly

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