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K M Krieger <pterochromics@(protected)> skrev den Fri, 2 Jul 2004
13:43:55 -0400:
> The reason for the name is that the measurements were originally based
> upon
> size of various of the the King's body parts. So they were "imperial"
I do not think so. I think "Imperial" comes from the fact that it once was
the standard in the British Empire. Of course it is derived from general
human sizes, not just the kings.
Now there are a lot of europeans that do not speak english (most of us)
and we do not call it "imperial". We do not usually have any name at all
for it other than "old time" or something like that, as similar systems
also were used in most other countries long ago.
In 1950-ies there was a US law that the meter system should come in use
within ten years. What happened to that? The british people managed to
make
the change to the meter system around 40 years ago. I remember an article
in a british magazine (Railway Modeler I think) that had an article
"How to get afoot with the meter system".
O.T. punishment wip render: http://www.visulogik.com/tS/h1.jpg
- Hans
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