...last night?

On "neighbours from hell" - metric everwhere! - *EVEN* kilometres.

Some of you would have been in seventh heaven!

I wonder if this was a deliberate decision by the programme makers or whether it was just an individual's political persuasions?

(NB. Comments by ordinary folk was in imperial, it was just the "voice over" voice that was completely out of kilter with the viewing public).

BTW - the "antidote in reverse" was Top Gear on BBC2 on Sunday night - which mentioned the word "gallon" about 50 times!!!

P.S. I noticed on BBC World (which you cannot get in the UK) that they do "short" versions of Top Gear. Amazingly they replace imperial words with metric ones when they can do it without looking like a "dub-over" - eg in commentary over film footage.
If it would look obvious (say, Clarkson talking about miles per gallon) they either leave it "as-is" or remove that particular feature (Top gear on BBC World is 15 mins long compared to the original episode on BBC2 of half an hour).

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This should be the ultimate proof of the need to metricate. If we assume that the BBC tunes its use of language to what its readers want, then by not metricating we give the Government, Big Business etc the opportunity to produce one version of something UK viewers adn anotehr version for wider consumption. If they have anythng to hide from the UK viewer, they have the perfect infrastructure in place to hide such infiormation.

But you forget one thing - its not "hidden".
Its just that we in the UK have our own customs and traditions - we're not metric.

Likewise the intn'l version of Top Gear quotes dollar prizes - this does not mean we should scrap the pound for the dollar.

You are looking at this from the wrong perspective, martin - with due respect.

dollar prizes = dollar prices