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Where I grew up in the urban Midwest, they were called English units (despite everyone knowing that England is metric). Kind of reminded me how the French call
by gecko 14y ago
Where I grew up in the urban Midwest, they were called English units (despite everyone knowing that England is metric). Kind of reminded me how the French call French horns English horns.
- arethuza 14y ago"England is metric" The UK isn't fully metric - road signs are in miles and car speeds (and speed limits) are in mph. Similarly most people use feet for height and stones for weight of people although anything "official" will be metric. Choice of units can cause confusion within households - my teenage son sets out bathroom scales to stones and pounds to try and see if he is adding weight and I set it to kg to see if I have lost weight!
- Patient0 14y agoCor anglais: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_anglais http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_anglais French horn: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument) So what the French call an English horn is very different from what the English call a French horn.
- Evbn 14y agoYeah, the Cor looks more like German Oboe.