My response did not include something important which might have been seen as
slightly misleading - we don't tend to use square feet (or sq m) in the UK
except for office space. Rooms are quoted individually describing width by
length for house sales. Unless you're buying a farm!Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008
23:42:19 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [USMA:42103] RE: BBC web site keeps it
metricTo: [email protected]
The use of square meters and square kilometers are
preferable to hectares since people can visualize square meters and square
kilometers and fractions thereof without having to compute a change in units to
hectares and vice versa.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From:
Stephen
Humphreys
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 6:52
PM
Subject: [USMA:42101] RE: BBC web site
keeps it metric
<<I wonder if usage for larger areas in the UK (aside
from real estate transactions) is trending toward metric only, namely,
hectares and square kilometers exclusively.>>'fraid not -
especially hectares - most people would not understand what an 'ha' is.I
would say that smaller areas are more likely to show metres (I've seen one or
two estate agents including room dimensions in metres in
brackets)> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[email protected]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:
[USMA:42095] BBC web site keeps it metric> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008
04:24:59 +0000> > > I was pleasantly surprised to see the
BBC News web site describe the area of the Amazon rain forest being lost in
square kilometers:> >
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7756241.stm> > (The
unpleasant surprise was to read about the acceleration in the loss of rain
forest. :-(> > I switched to the UK version of the site just to
be sure they didn't edit the wording differently there ..... but the article
is exactly the same.> > Based on previous articles I've seen, I
was bracing myself to see "square miles" listed in parentheses afterwards.
> > I wonder if usage for larger areas in the UK (aside from
real estate transactions) is trending toward metric only, namely, hectares
and
square kilometers exclusively.> > Ezra>
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