Pot Sizes, was Re: storage of summer dormant bulbs
Jane McGary (Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:36:41 PDT)

When I edit articles for the Rock Garden Quarterly, I try to include both
metric and U.S. measurements; this is the standard practice for
publications in the United States that expect to have an international
readership. Since I'm bad at calculation, I often make mistakes, but
proofreader Hans Sauter catches them.

I sincerely wish the US would go metric "cold turkey" as Canada did, so we
editors wouldn't have to deal with this, but I admit that I don't know,
without looking at my bi-scalar thermometer, the Celsius equivalents for
temperatures above freezing. I know those below freezing because (a)
they're important in gardening and (b) I lived in Alaska, which is near
Canada and very concerned with cold temperatures. This pig-headedness is
just one more thing that embarrasses some of us hegemonic Americans.

Jane McGary