• (cs) in reply to OverloadedOperator
    Anonymous:
    And why is that a problem? Doesn't being the world's largest economy at least earn one the right to use the measument system of one's own choosing?

    Second-largest, I think you'll find.

  • (cs) in reply to rsynnott

    For dubwai : Thanks, lots of rationality. Annother thanks setting the story straight about the French revolution. The Americans did not see the need to murder every person who might have some claim to the Brittish throne.


    For the Joke and Anti-Joke comments : There is a troll button, why not use it instead of the flames


    For the flames and everyone else : Thanks, I had forgotten about the triple point behavior of water and was willfully ignorant of the various ounces and pound.

     

    For this : "You are repairing your car/bicycle, and your wife/girlfriend is helping. 11/32 wrench you have in your hand is too small, and you ask for next size. Which will it be? 12/16? 16/48? "

    Uh sure, whatever. Dubwai gave an easy answer, but if many of us who have tools would agree that it is a trick question. One does not ask ones wife/girlfriend to help with tools no matter whether it be standard or metric. :P


    The royal houses have an ethical and moral obligation towards the people (an advantage of not having murdered them all) that obliges them to have a role in the approval of democratic initiatives. I don't know about the UK, but the GG in Canada has very limited powers as far as legislation goes. The GG can send something back to parliment a couple times, but in the end MUST sign that which is passed by parliment.

     


    avoirdupois is three french words: Avoir du pois. Having some weight.

     

    RevMike: I like your characterization of Our Language

    English is germanic language, but has limited direct connections to German.

    Modern English is based on Middle English, Kentish, Saxon, the rest of the dialects from the British Isles, the latin words from French (restored to more Latin spellings), more Latin, some Greek, and lots of other words that were in common use.

    You can look into Simeon Potter books to get accurate info. This has some info : http://geoffbarton.co.uk/files/student-resources/A%20Level/Language%20Change/The%20Early%20History%20Of%20English.doc

     

  • Tetsujin (unregistered) in reply to theRestOfTheWorld

    The government of the United States of America formed by the current Constitution of same (prior governments were not named the United States of America) is not now nor has it ever been a democracy.

    Representative republic, yes.

    Note also that the French democratic revolution was well after the British colonial insurrection.

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