[ARC5] SI Units - Careless Errors Abound

[Glen Zook]

Actually, blame Noah Webster who hated the British so much that he changed the spelling of all sorts of words when he published his first dictionary.  Webster was very fond of changing words that ended in "re" to "er", i.e. metre to meter.
 
Glen, K9STH


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________________________________
 From: Lloyd Godsey <kk7iz at cox.net>
To: 'Mike Morrow' <kk5f at arrl.net>; arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] SI Units - Careless Errors Abound
 
Enuf already
My kilo hurts and you are giving me mega pains
Lord help us if the Brits with their cocked up scrambling of
a language they supposedly invented weigh into this fracas.

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Behalf Of Mike Morrow
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:00 PM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] SI Units - Careless Errors Abound


> mHz is correct for millihertz. It is used, and correctly.

True, as my note explained.  However, when was the last time someone you
knew used mHz and actually meant millihertz.  Limiting ourselves for the
moment to this list only, my money says never.

> I believe, to simplify things, when a quantity is named after a 
> person, it is correct to capitalize.

True for the unit symbol or abbreviation, as my note explained.

> When it's [with] a multiplier, it is lower case.

You are stating that when the unit symbol follows a prefix representing some
multiple or fraction, the unit symbol may be lower case.  That is NOT
correct if the unit symbol represents a proper name.  When done so, it's
just an example of carelessness or ignorance of the accepted convention. 

Mike / KK5F
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