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PMB BS: UK, EU, Metric (45) RE: BS: UK, EU, Metric 14 Sep 07

It's noticeable that quite a lot of motorway junction signs give distances as "1/3 mile", "2/3 mile" etc. To the accuracy with which they are placed, they could easiliy be replaced by 0.5km and 1km. I suspect it's deliberate, a plot by those dastardly Frenchies!

I really get annoyed by the British pronunciation of kilOMeters. It should be KILometres, you don't talk about centIMetres, kilOGrams, megAwatts. A MICROmetre is a thousandth of a millimetre; a micrOmeter is a measuring instrument.

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