On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:01:37 -0700, Roy Lewallen
wrote:


do it. What the U.S. did was to declare the metric system to be official
("Mission Accomplished!") and change whiskey bottles from fifths to 750
ml (which was promoted by the booze industry because it made the bottles
just a little smaller and they could charge the same price). Wow.

Roy, you overlooked that the US, an earlier signup to SI, fixed the
spelling of metre in the US variant of SI.

Owen
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