This is in today's Letters page of the Irish Times. You cannot access it, because it is subscription based and carries a yearly charge. This letter must make the BWMA and the Irish Anti Metric League cringe.
Han GOING THE EXTRA MILE Madam, - I am confused. In the recent controversy over the speed limit there was much talk of "a mile per hour". What exactly is a mile? Perhaps a close relation of a rod and a pole, a perch, a chain or a rood? Perhaps an elderly friend of the guinea or the sovereign? I thought I lived in a country where the roads are marked in kilometres, and certainly my car's speedometer is so designated. So why this talk of a "mile"? - Yours, etc., JONATHAN IRWIN, Ballitore, Co Kildare.
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