I think that Americans can thank their Northern neighbours for the invention of
Letter and Legal paper sizes - for once the Canadians got it wrong.
Some years ago, one of my clients, an architectural firm in Toronto, tried to
switch to 'metric' sized paper, as they called it. I didn't realise i
Black'N'Red is very popular with fountain pen enthusiasts. Here is guide to
their complete American line:
http://www.blacknred.com/pagetemplate.php?pid=38
It gets discussed a lot at a fountain pen forum, FPN, but I was surprised to
see it mentioned in the USMA mail list.
OfficeMax, Staples,
I was shopping for a few items today and came across a hard bound set of
writing paper. The company that makes the hardbound writing paper is
black n Red. I saw that the size was in old style measurements, but I
then realised that I was looking at A4 and A5 formatted paper! Here in
north Americ
Dear All,
This might be of interest:
http://www.dstan.mod.uk/pol_met.htm
Note the section on 'Metrication in the United States of America'.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo
At the risk of censure for continuing the off-topic posting ... this
thread reminded me of a discovery I made about 30 years ago, namely
what happens when you flip a VOLVO over. You get something which looks
like a greek word which transliterated into roman letters is "OLGOL".
I asked someo
