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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