On 25 Sep 2006, at 21:25, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > >> Gone metric in 1959 and nearly 50 years later - hardly aybody's >> noticed. Sounds about right. >> >> So for about the next 40 to 50 years we carried on expecting a >> pint of >> milk, a pint of beer, filling station pumps deliver litres of petrol >> and we still think "miles per gallon", ask for a quarter of a >> pound of >> sweets or cooked meat in shops, road signs in miles or miles per >> hour, >> speedometers predominantly in mph. > > The thing is that the English measuring system is all based around the > practical world of experience. > > Some of examples that I can think of are the "inch" being the distance > of the thumb to the first joint. The yard being a stride. >
So, with people becoming taller, the yard becomes longer. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
