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From: tjsmedley@watmum.UUCP (Trevor J. Smedley)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Converting English units to metric
Message-ID: <288@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 11:08:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 11:08:49 1985
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In article <694@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes:
>
>	Let me point out that, although England has gone over to the metric
>system, the old system of measurement is still called "English" here in the
>United States.  There is another system called "Imperial", which is similar to
>the English system: all Imperial units are 1.2 times larger than their English
>counterparts (e.g. an Imperial gallon is 1.2 normal gallons).
                                              ??????
Let's get this straight;

Imperial system: The system that was used in the United Kingdom,
Canada, and probably most of the Commonwealth and a lot of other
places for a long time, and still is used to a great extent (even
though we are "metric"). This is often called the "English" system
here in Canada.

American system: This is the one used in the United States (and maybe
a few banana republics :-). Some things are smaller than their
"Imperial" counterparts.

Be careful with the conversions given. If it's from a Canadian or
British cook book (things which are largely still in Imperial units)
the conversions will be wrong. Also, anything crossing the border will
have to be converted from Imperial to American, or the other way
around.

Maybe someone should provide an American-Imperial-Metric conversion?
(did I just volunteer?? What have I gotten mysely into here?)

Trevor J. Smedley