Andreas Johansson wrote:
>You might not have taken as many electronics courses as I have. :)
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Evidently not!
>A big multiple I hear of with some frequency is terajoule.
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Never heard of terajoules I don't think
>>I think you missed that one---a mil in Australia is a millimetre or
>>millilitre.
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>I'd hope that's with a short /i/, tho. Swedish mil is [mi:l].
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Yeah. Well, short /I/ at any rate. But the i in 'kilo' is a long /I:/,
so go figure. (kilo- has of course a short /I/.)
>Here the tablespoon is 15ml, the teaspoon 5ml, while the cup to my knowledge
>isn't used. The units are almost exclusively used in recipes.
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Yeah, ditto (I'll be careful not to use a swedish recipe book without
adaption, though :). Do you measure litres of flour, or do you just do
it by weight?
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Tristan.