[USMA:36132] Re: UK newspaper poll about metricating road signs

[Bill Hooper]

On 2006 Feb 25 , at 11:10 AM, Anon Anon wrote: A popular London newspaper has a poll about metric at: http://www.metro.co.uk/polls/index.html?in_poll_id=610&in_page_id=1 I went to that web site and noticed a "metric quiz" I could take. What a farce ! ! ! Even though it began with some statement about testing how well you know the metric system, the quiz had virtually nothing to do with metric. It was almost entirely about how to convert from olde English units to metric units or vice versa. I know how long a kilometre is but I could not answer the question that asked how many kilometres there are in a nautical mile. And if I could, I would not claim that as "having a knowledge of the metric system". anybody else want to check it out and perhaps protest (as I did)?