Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17677 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2002 10:16:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by excalibur-qfe1-smtp-plusnet.harl.plus.net with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 10:16:00 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 17441 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2002 10:16:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by warrior.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 10:16:01 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16fJYh-0001dV-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:44:43 +0000 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16fJYg-0001dP-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:44:42 +0000 Received: from northrelay01.pok.ibm.com (northrelay01.pok.us.ibm.com [9.117.200.21]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA154316 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:02:54 -0500 Received: from usa.net (ss8.bld.socks.ibm.com [9.14.4.73]) by northrelay01.pok.ibm.com (8.11.1m3/NCO/VER6.00) with ESMTP id g1PA65o189170 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:06:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3C7A0C60.C2FCECAE@usa.net> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:05:20 +0100 From: "Alberto di Bene" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: LF: Re: Spelling of units References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020224133138.009f8e50@POP3.freeler.nl> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Dick Rollema wrote:

Dear OM,
The following matter has nothing to do with LF but as former editor and corrector of VERON magazine Electron I nevertheless take the liberty to beg your opinion on it.
[...]

Dick,
as far as Italy is concerned, we use exactly the same rules as you do in Holland.
At least officially. In actual practice sometimes I have found myself (wrongly) adding
a final 's' to some of the units when spelt in fully... or, corrupted by reading too many
US-published books, eliminating the intervening space between the value and the unit.
Will check better what I write in the future...

73 Alberto I2PHD