----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:58:58 PM Subject: [USMA:38125] Re: Anti-metric bias in schools
On 10-Mar-07, at 12:09 , Daniel Jackson wrote: When I was in Canada some years ago, I encountered pound pricing only on goods that were prepackaged, like apples and potatoes. You couldn't ask for specific pound amounts and even though the "per pound" price was displayed on an advertisement, the products were not sold that way. However, where you had to ask for a weighed amount, it was in grams and kilograms and the advertising was per 100 grams. They'll definitely be weighed in g or kg. I may have not been clear, but I was referring to packaged goods, such as apples and potatoes in prepackaged sacks, some imported from the US. But in many stores, the language across the counter is still imperial. Before I moved to Toronto I would buy my meat in a butcher shop. They had no problem if you asked for a metric amount of something, but I'd have to say that 90% of the requests for things were in pounds. The same being true at vegetable stands. The question then is how does the consumer know he is getting what he/she asked for? Since they weigh it out in grams and the consumer sees grams, then how are they assured they get the imperial amount they requested? For example, if someone asked for a pound of something and the clerk weighed out 480 g, would the consumer know if that was what he/she requested? Where you do tend to see items requested in metric seems to be at the deli counters. People request their sliced ham, roast beef, and cheese in grams, most of the time. In a typical shopping experience, is a consumer more apt to buy things he/she has to ask for in metric or in imperial? Would they ask for more things at the deli counter in grams or at the "other" counter in non-metric? I believe property deeds in Canada are all metric unless they are really old, as surveying is 100 % metric. If you have your property surveyed it will be done in metres and officially recorded that way. If your home was built after metrication, then the deed and survey will be metric. When I bought my house, it was advertised as being on 40' x 100' lot, but the deed itself showed it as being 12.10 m x 30.50 m Do you know what the accepted accuracy of the measurement is? The lot seems small. Mine is 20 m (w) x 50 m (d). Not a surveyed amount, but one I measured with a metric tape measure. This is a 1000 m^2 lot compared to your 369 m^2. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news
