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[email protected] · December 29th 11, 01:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Richard Roberts) wrote:

On 28/12/11 23:24, wrote:
On 28/12/2011 19:07, Phil Kane wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:03:35 +0000, "
wrote:

They haven't used pre-decimal coins here since the early '70s.

In the 10 days that I spent in London in 1967 I had almost figured out
the British monetary system including the localisms, now mostly
forgotten. Do the kids growing up there recognize that at all?

A system that hasn't been in use in over 40 years? No.

They might just understand "Bob" I suppose.

The UK government have (half-heartedly) been trying to remove old
units of measurement for about as long, and that's not going too
well. Arguably, non-metric units haven't been in full use for 30
years, and people of all ages are still familiar with them.

The UK government has been (half-heartedly) trying to remove old units of
measurement for over a century. In some fields Imperial units haven't been
used for decades. When did you last see a car engine capacity in this
country expressed in cubic inches, for example? In other areas progress
stopped years ago.

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Colin Rosenstiel