Time to fully embrace the metric system

I REFER to the letter writer (October 12) who says his daughter’s school bag weighs under two stone.

Time to fully embrace the metric system
Sat, 15 Oct, 2011 - 01:00
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It is time the writer got to grips with the metric system.

While his daughter is being taught metric in school, he reverts to the imperial system when describing her heavy burden.

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