I wonder which metric countries, apart from recent joiners like Canada, Britain and Ireland, use acres and square feet. The hectare is the unit used for land; the km^2 and the m^2 are used where appropriate. What is left in Germany and The Netherlands is the German word Acker and the Dutch word akker. These are no measuring units anymore, they now mean any field for growing crops. The old meaning of the words Acker and akker as a unit of measurement can be found in place-names,
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-29 03:30 Subject: [USMA:19130] Fwd: Re: What is an SI unit? > Hello Marcus > > The metric world pushed liter as the cubic unit and it > became popular and also made SI popular. > > On the other hand, the metric world did not stress 'are' (100 sq. meters) as the square unit and that is why the acre and square feet still rules even in metric countries. > > We have to be flexible and more PEOPLE oriented rather than PURITY oriented. Now I have set a target of drinking 2 liters of water / day as my doctor advised. > Please dont tell me to take 2 cubic decimeters of H2O / 86,400 SI seconds. Madan <snip>
