.....although, again, admittedly rare, newspapers and books in the UK have been
known to use kilometres as well as miles.
Yes, all signposts on UK public roads are legally required to read in miles and
feet (although this is not always the case) but some publcations, particularly
newspapers, will happily mix kilometres with miles
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Davis
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:32 PM
Subject: [USMA:46643] Re: Burma
"I can assure you that almost all publications, and other media outlets,
would use miles over here. Based on the non-metrication of our roads I'd
guess."
Except for private roads of course, which can use metric signs if they wish.
And though it is admittedly pretty rare, you can find mixtures of metric and
imperial on British road signs....bridge heights, for example, can often be in
metres other than, or as well as, feet.
A statement on the sorry mess that measurement is in this country,
unfortunately.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Humphreys
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 7:10 PM
Subject: [USMA:46629] Re: Burma
Not sure. Some publishers use kiolmetres for international books. Perhaps
it's something like that. Like the way 'BBC World' would say 'The accident
happened 3 kilometres from the junction' with the exact same feature being
broadcast as 'The accident happened 2 miles from the junction' in domestic BBC
stations. You mention it as a excerpt - was the spelling 'metER' as you
mention or 'metRE'?
I can assure you that almost all publications, and other media outlets,
would use miles over here. Based on the non-metrication of our roads I'd guess.
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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:34:26 +0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:46627] Re: Burma
But then how does that explain why they gave the distance only in
kilometers and not both kilometers and miles?
-- Ezra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 5:40:34 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [USMA:46622] Re: Burma
Ezra:"I noted in one of their (free) excerpts from another part of the book
that they referred to the length of a particular railway journey in kilometres,
which I presume was done for the benefit of their (UK) readers."
Surely you mean 'miles' (UK tracks being in miles and UK citizens usage).
km would be there for Australia for example.
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