[time-nuts] 15 ns vs. 15 nS

[Rob Kimberley]

I took my 2 young daughters to Austron in TX with me in the mid 80's. There
were taken out shopping one day by one of the Austron wives, and went into a
stationery shop. "Look at all those rubbers" they shouted out in their
innocence. 

Startled silence and red faces from the rest of the shop...... 

:-)

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Didier Juges
Sent: 22 May 2007 15:31
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 15 ns vs. 15 nS


John Day wrote:
> At 09:26 AM 5/22/2007, Didier Juges wrote:
>   
>> Having been on the western side of the pond for too long (people here 
>> could not care less about SI units, they drive on parkways and park 
>> on driveways anyhow), I got bad habits, sorry...
>>     
>
> We'll forgive you Didier! I find the same thing up here in Canada 
> despite the fact we are slightly more metricated than the US.
>
> However I just cannot bring myself to give up 'English' spelling. 
> Canada is confused, they spell some things English style, and other 
> things US style. But for me it is still colour, programme and metre.
>
> John
>
>   

That's OK, you should hear a conversation at home between my children and
me. It would make a franco-english canadian cringe...

Now, the funniest part was when I started here some 20 years ago, and I went
to the secretary and asked for a rubber... She sent me to the stock room,
who sent me to someone else. It took me 3 stops to realize they were having
a good time at my expense...

Didier KO4BB

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