Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Triple Quadrophenic (hollis_f%frgen.dnet@sb.com)
13 Oct 1995 07:20:40 GMT
In article <45ji1j$iqa@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>, jhurley1@attila.stevens-tech.edu (Jonathan Hurley) says:
>
>Dave Budd (zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk) wrote: : don@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Don Stokes)
>writes:
>: >v. Those *names*. I'd stop saying "miles" immediately if the "official"
>: > name for a kilometre changed to something that rolled off the tounge as
>: > easily.
>: kloms
>
>I always preferred klicks, myself. Or kays. Either one works in casual
>conversation. Just as kaygees or kilos do for weight.
Here at work when referring to bodyweight we use Kigs for kilos.
So we would dose people up with drugs at so many Migs per Kig.
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