Re: maggelish spelling reform (wasRe: english spelling reform)

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
> En réponse à Muke Tever <mktvr@...>:
> > Why is the length stated before the width?
>
> Not length stated before width, but longest size stated before shorter size. A
> perfectly logical choice to me.
>
> > That doesn't seem to be normal measuring practice.
>
> It is the normal practice though, everywhere I've ever seen it.
>
>>   Is it a metric thing?
>
> Probably an American vs. the rest of the world thing. So it may connected to
> the metric thing too indeed.
As someone already noted it may be because of x,y coordinates.

The paper that goes in _my_ printer is labelled 8½" x 11" (which is the standard
way of referring to the size of letter-size paper here), with the usual "metric
subtitle" reading 216 mm x 279 mm.

Ah well.


    *Muke!
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