Oops, I forgot to send it to chat as well..... blonde moment!! Sue
Begin forwarded message: > From: Sue Duckles <s...@duckles.co.uk> > Date: 21 January 2009 09:41:03 GMT > To: "Jean Nathan" > Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Celsius and Fahrenheit > > I agree Jean. It is really bizarre.... wool is sold by the x25, x50 > & x100 gram. Sugar by the kilo. If you go into a pub or a > restaurant, beer & lager & cider is sold by the pint or half pint, > but if you get it in a bottle from the supermarket, it's 1/2, 1 or 2 > litres! Whereas wine is sold by millilitres in pubs, and bottles > (75 cl) or litres in supermarkets! We weigh ourselves in stones & > pounds, but most doctors weigh us in kilos! > > Liquid drugs are measured in millilitres, but we still think of > custard by the pint! > > I wonder how many of us still use imperial measurements when making > a cake (4 oz flour, sugar, butter etc) rather than metric (100g > flour, sugar, butter etc)? (I must admit, when making muffins > (American) I use the cup from my breadmaker!! Spoon > measurements.... 1tsp = 5ml, dessertspoon = 10 & tablespoon anywhere > between 15 and 20!! > > As for knitting needles..... the more senior think of 8's, 10's etc, > but if you go into a shop you need 4mm, 3.75mm etc. And the > American system is different again!!! > > Aaaaaargh!!! > > Sue in East Yorkshire where the temp today is around 2 deg C (39 deg > F!?) > > On 21 Jan 2009, at 08:51, Jean Nathan wrote: > >> Tamara wrote: >> >> <Brought with me from Poland scales which weigh in grams and >> kilos, every thermometer in the house has both Celsius and >> Fahrenheit, > >> >> The UK always used imperial measurements - inches, feet yards, >> miles - and temperatures in Fahrenheit. The EU has tried to impose >> metric measurements on us, but we've resisted certain changes so we >> use a combination of both metric and imperial, which can be rather >> bizarre. >> >> For a long time wood was sold in imperial widths, but metric >> lengths. So you would by a 3.04 metre (10 feet) length of 2 inch by >> 2 inch. Now it's all metric. >> >> We buy petrol by the litre, but travel by the mile. >> >> Milk is sold by both the litre and pint. I think beer (don't drink >> alcohol) is sold by the pint. >> >> Now the EU has said we can keep our imperial measurements - the >> government wanted to keep them for sales to the USA. >> >> The one rather silly combination we use is Celsius and Fahrenheit >> for temperature - we tend to quote high environmental temperatures >> in Fahrenheit and low ones in Celsius, probably because it sounds >> hotter in Fahrenheit and colder in Celsius. I never could get the >> hang of how much of a fever someone had if their temperature was >> over 37 degrees Celsius - much easier to judge from 98.4 degrees >> Fahrenheit. >> >> Like you, both the environmental thermometers we have at home show >> both Fahrenheit and Celsius. > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
