UK
Liquid volume: pints for fresh milk but litres for evaporated-pints for
beer but millilitres/mills for spirits
Distance/length: miles/yards/feet for distance but metres/centimetres for
building materials (and drawings)
Weight: Lbs/ounces for produce (and sometimes grammes but we wont go into
that) but kilos for body weight ('cept for 'old fogies' who still use
stones)
Ask someone how long a cable you need they will answer in feet but we buy
it per metre
We say a car is 10ft long but measure its boot capacity in litres, engine
capacity in litres but still talk of horsepower
People talk of 1/4 of a %! (That to me is the 'best' one, combining
fractions with metrics)
No wonder we can be a mixed up lot, we will drag ourselves into the 20th
century kicking and screaming (Might get to the 21st someday too)
Nick you *know* what the queen uses?!
Anyway if you want Fahrenheit just remember Tf = (9/5)*Tc+32, simples ;)
On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:58:23 UTC+1, Nick wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:28:41 UTC+1, Lucky wrote:
>>
>> Still makes me laugh, here in the UK people use Fahrenheit when
>> describing 'hot' days but Centigrade when 'cold'!
>> Anyway I think it should be measured in 'Kelvins' ;)
>>
>
> No-one that I know of in the UK still uses degrees F, except superannuated
> old fogies who still believe we have an empire...
>
> The only thing you need to know is that the BBC and the Queen use degrees
> C... I rest my case...
>
> ...though we use imperial measures for length (but often also metric) and
> distance, speed & area, volume of draught beer and milk (but not petrol)
> etc. simple really.
>
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