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why is the US not Metric
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Simon:

--- Quote from: ScroatyBallSac on October 31, 2019, 09:08:10 pm ---Yeah i really love the way electronics imperial units are in Mils |O. Being a mechanical engineer, THOU's would have been an obvious unit....
"Hey Jim. Here's a way to screw with people. Let make imperial small units called Mil's there's no way someone would confuse them with mil's volume or mm's distance"    :wtf:

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In Italian Mille means thousand, I don't know if mills comes from some sort of language bastardisation.
Daixiwen:
And to make things easier, in Norway, a "mil" is 10 km  ;D
Simon:
Well I was thinking that Italian is probably the current language that most closely approximates Latin. And many things just derive from Latin. I can often unpick the rational of a word if I consider it in both English and Italian. For example I can only tell you which day is for what planet because I know Italian where the similarity between the names of the days and the planets is so similar it is obvious.

Mill in Norway may derive from the fact that it actually means 1'000 not 1'000'000 and 1 km is 1'000 m.
soldar:
Mile in English comes from Latin mile/milia, one thousand [steps]. It is the distance a man walks when he walks one thousand steps.

A 'mil' or thou is equal to one thousandth of an inch. Think of it as a milli-inch.
jonovid:
my fathers shed had.
imperial AF, metric & whitworth spanners
that made under the bonnet work interesting.
and then there is today's television sizes
that started out in Imperial then went metric then back to using imperial.  :clap:
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