From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Jan van Hoek (NL)"  wrote in
message news:VA.000001f5.00708065{at}xs4alldot.nl...
> >> ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
> >> (I don't know the metric version but the idea is the same)
>
> Not to worry. In our country we are "metric" for more than half a
> century, but such expressions survive without a problem.
>
> In Dutch we still say: een ons geluk is beter dan een pond verstand
> (literally translated: an ounce of happiness is better than a pound of
> intelligence). These officially dropped measurements are still used in
> shops and on the market. It may have something to do with the fact that
> our "ons" (=100 grams) is not the same as your
"ounce", and that our
> "pond" (=500 grams) is not the same as your
"pound" (please note that
> these measurements were metric all along, which may have helped their
> survival).

We're metric too, except that some stuff still remains in inches, like car
tires and tv's. And nails. And the force needed to shoot a bow is measured
in pounds. Pretty funny actually.


Antti Kurenniemi

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