Although I have not been yet - I picked up a travel book about the country on Saturday.

It says in the appendix: "Weights and Measures: Imperial"

Perhaps, martin, you should also add this country to that list that is constantly bandied about on the internet referring to just 3 countries using imperial?

Put it under Barbados or St Lucia!

I'll be able to report on the full extent of imperial usage there once I return.

Steve the measurements probably depend on the country the the guide was printed in.

In this case - the UK

It's for travellers from the UK but includes references to Americans in the form of "Americans like to holiday in ...." type way. However the book spelled colour "color".

Would they not say "USC" instead of "Imperial", if it were an American publication?

I'll check out the size of a gallon when I get there!!

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Not necessarily. Most Americans don't know (or care about) the difference.


Steveh, just because it was printed in the UK doesn't mean that it was printed for Britishers to read. I have books that were printed in Taiwan, by American companies, in English, for the American market.

Indeed it was printed very generically as if for Canadians, Americans, UK and other English speaking nations.

It had telephone numbers for the airlines, for example, in international format.

I'll check to see where it was printed etc tonight.

One thing though, above the bar chart on the back it showed sterling only - most "multi" publications tend to have UKŁ US$ and CA$ on them.

It's printed in Singapore.

It's a UK publication and has distibuters listed in this order: UK and Ireland, United States, Canada.

I checked the spellings and they're mixed (eg. colour, color, harbor, harbour)

This is explained by some text asking people to write in to keep the book accurately up to date. A uk email address is given along with a UK snail-mail address.

I bet the spelling thing is due to updates being sent in from UK, US and Canada.

I just going to quess that since it's written in English the people who wrote it thought it appropriate to use English measure as well. But please give us an update on the Bahamas when you go there.

"But please give us an update on the Bahamas when you go there"

I'm sure you'll understand, but I'll give you an update ON MY RETURN.

I'll be otherwise busy when I go there.

;-)

You guys might find these articles of interest:


http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/03/17/moving.shtml

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050322T200000-0500_77361_OBS_ST_LUCIA_BEGINS_DRIVE_TO_IMPLEMENT_METRIC_SYSTEM_TO_CATCH_UP_WITH_REGION.asp

http://www.stlucia.gov.lc/pr2005/march/st_lucia_moving_from_old_imperial_to_metric_system.htm

http://www.stlucia.gov.lc/gis/nationwide/2005/NationWide19March2005.pdf Go to page 6.

Those are websites.

You don't get sand between your toes in websites.

Why would I want that?

Erm...

Do you get out?

At all?

SteveH wrote

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.... Don Bradman seldom did :-)

I had to look that up on Wikipedia before I could "get" the joke.

even then it took me a few moments before i let out a slight groan.

Steve, you can't even claim that being Welsh put you at a disadvantage - Glamorgan (along with seventeen others) is a first class county.

I know I know!

I just never got into Cricket.

However - Clive Woodward is the anti-christ.

Henson should smack him one!