[HPFGU-OTChatter] U.K. units of measure

[udder_pen_dragon]

Hi all,

Not having seen anything on the list like this before I thought I would post it.

I have just answered a query with regard to one of my Fics At www.Fanfiction.net/~udderpd and I thought that part of the answer might well be of interest to other would be writers not based in the U.K.

The fundamental question was do we in Britain use metric dimensions?

If you drive a car: we measure speed in m.p.h.and distance in miles but we buy our Petrol (Gas) in litres. 

Inside houses we have what I call 9.99 syndrome (do they really think that 9.99 sounds less than 10? Be it £, $, €, or whatever ) property vendors think that; e.g. over 26 feet sounds more than 8 mtrs, so they use feet.

Come on it gets better yet; our grocers and greengrocers are forced, by the Government, to sell everything in metric units, great easy you might think, wrong, e.g. we buy milk in containers holding 0.568 of a litre or one imperial (U.K.) pint. Which for the benifit of our North American friends is twenty fluid ounces as opposed to the U.S. pint which is sixteen fluid ounces.

If it wasn't so stupid it might be funny.

TTFN          Udder PenDragon

 

 





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