Helo Bj”rn,

BF> They are even hanging on to Fahrenheit, now that every other
BF> English speaking country has adopted the Celsius scale, decades ago.

BF>    I guess it'll take more than a generation before all
BF> those backward USAians finally join the rest of the world
BF> on the metric system. The military and the scientists
BF> already did so, a long time ago, but the vast, uneducated,
BF> majority of the US people, just don't seem to be able to
BF> accept, that anything with French origin can become a
BF > world-wide standard.

That's why they keep hanging on to a temperature scale invented by ... a German. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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