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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