<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 00:09, Sergio Manzi <<a href="mailto:smz@smz.it">smz@smz.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I've also always known them as "short ton" and "long ton" and I
agree whith your choice, but...
<p>actually "short ton" and "long ton" are the terms used in the
U.S., while AFAIK Brits distinguish between "imperial ton" and
"cental ton", so maybe we have a problem...</p></div></blockquote><div>Yeah, in the UK we're more likely to use "imperial ton" if we need to make it clear we're talking</div><div>about our ton and not the Merkin one. But (theoretically) the UK doesn't use imperial tons any</div><div> more because they were excluded from terms used for trade in 1985. The UK went metric</div><div>(apart from road signs in miles and beverages in pints).<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have no idea what a "cental ton" is. Should I drink more covfefe?</div><div><br></div><div>It might not be a problem if we can get editor presets to offer UK/US/metric tons as options</div><div> and do the work behind the scenes. Or perhaps we now understand why the wiki said</div><div> metric units only. :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>