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From: etj90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Khaos)
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Subject: Re: Imperial vs Metric
Keywords: inches gallons electrical outlets
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Date: 5 Jun 91 16:39:12 GMT
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In <9106011628@ukmug.uk.mugnet.org> jonathan@ukmug.uk.mugnet.org (Jonathan Allen) writes:
(In comp.os.minix too, the dead-head)
>Andy Tannenbaum (ast@vu.cs.nl) wrote:
>> People in the U.S. just assume that the whole world uses inches
>All the best people do :-)

==He does. (sneer) Only oldsters do nowadays in England you know.

>The English still do use inches, although our government seems bent on

Speak for yourself.
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