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.

Sat, 15 Oct, 2011 - 01:00
Letters

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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