This started out as a single page, but it became unwieldy so it has been split up.

These pages are still under construction - several conversions between units of measure etc., are still missing...   We'll get there as soon as we can.

Much may be determined about a language and a people by the way that things are measured.  Do you know what an acre really is?  Or a chain?

Browse around - hopefully you'll find it useful - and even interesting.

Metrication is still a touchy issue with many people - I won't go into questions about whether or not we should go metric, but I will say that in the UK, where we have gone metric, we have done so BADLY.

• Instead of selling truly metric measures (for example 0.5Kg of flour), we have continued to sell imperial quantities, such as 1lb, and then label them with their metric equivalent - 454g.
• We have had fabric and wood sold by the yard width and metre length.
• One British Standard measure of heat transmission through a wall is:
          BThU/hour/sq ft/cm/^oF

• One car instruction manual I saw instructed that the fan-belt be tightened to give a play of under 1.9050038cm (a very exact interpretation of 3/4") rather than under 2cm, which would surely have done.
• I have seen ceefax letters suggesting that decimal fractions were inherently a part of the metric system and that common fractions were inherently metric.

No wonder some people find metrication confusing!