Residential lot sizes in the US are in square feet. Lot sizes are in acres for
farms. It doesn't make sense to use such a large unit as acre or hectare in
describing lot size when a more standard and common unit (m, km etc) is
available.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Humphreys
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:01 PM
Subject: [USMA:42112] RE: BBC web site keeps it metric
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!
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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 23:42:19 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [USMA:42103] RE: BBC web site keeps it metric
To: [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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