Today, we have pints, litres, feet and metres. If you drive, distances are in miles and yards, if you buy furniture it's in millimetres. We have the stupid term of "one pence" and "two pence" instead of "a penny" or "tuppence" and weights measured in grammes.
Notice that commerce chooses to use the smallest measurements hoping the public will believe they are getting a lot for their money.
Kids these days are not so hot at maths. I think they were better at it in the old pounds, shillings and pence days, because they had to think a lot harder when dealing with money.
Ask a car dealer about the petrol consumption of a car and he will give it as say, 30 miles per gallon because it sounds much better than 6 miles per litre.
So is it time to scrap the decimal system and go back to the far more sensible Imperial System?
2007-06-28
07:05:13
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