Re: US books in the UK

**A*@aol.com**

The reluctance of American publishers to adapt gardening books to metric 
measurements is another instance of rejecting another country's way of doing 
things.  Anyone who does regular work in chemical research uses the metric system 
and wishes we all did.  Does anyone remember the Mars lander that failed 
because two systems of measuring were used and then conversions weren't made?
There are differences in the electrical system between North America and the 
rest of the world, and there should be reconcilement there.  Sixty cycle 
alternating current is a very handy system and if that could become a worldwide 
standard it would help us all in using electrical appliances.

The metric system is an attempt to be logical and reflect reality.  Perhaps 
Graham Rice could give us the history of the English system used so fervently 
in the United States.

Perhaps we should ask the RHS to mention any books that they review that are 
American efforts without metric values.  It would be a warning and polite 
criticism of those books,

Barbara Emeneau
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