On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:53:03 -0000 someone who may be "Andrew
Mawson" wrote this:-

...nah, them milliwhatsits hadn't been seen in Engerland by the
1930's - them was genuine English inches - all 18 of 'emG

As I understand it the UK government promised to convert weights and
measures to metric in Victorian times. They should have done it well
before the 1930s and it is their incompetence which has prevented
this sensible change being made a hundred years ago.


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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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