Peter Kirk scripsit: > Well, except two countries, or more than two if you have been following > the "damn'd fools" thread. We British resisted Napoleon and we continue > to resist his innovations like the metric system, though we are being > forced to make a gradual change.
By what I understand, the U.K. is far more metricated than the U.S., where metrication is pretty much confined to wine and carbonated drinks, and the latter only in 1-liter and 2-liter quantities. > Napoleon managed to impose and are still uniform all the way from Calais > to Vladivostok (because even the Russians accepted his system for a > while), even traffic rules (drive on the right, give way to the right), > but are different in the UK. Yeah, you're still using the horseman-with-sword system rather than the cart-drover system. -- "[T]he Unicode Standard does not encode John Cowan idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or private http://www.ccil.org/~cowan use characters, nor does it encode logos http://www.reutershealth.com or graphics." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
