Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20291 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2002 22:51:13 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received: from unknown (HELO warrior.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by exhibition.plus.net with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 22:51:13 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 8441 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2002 22:51:10 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by warrior.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 22:51:10 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16fVSD-0003oT-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:26:49 +0000 Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.53.122] helo=blueyonder.co.uk) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16fVSC-0003oO-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:26:48 +0000 Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:48:45 +0000 Received: from vigor.robgill.org (unverified [62.30.62.69]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:48:45 +0000 Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020225223937.00c89730@pop.freeserve.net> X-Sender: twickenham.freeserve.co.uk@pop.freeserve.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:47:02 +0000 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org From: "Rob Gill" Subject: Re: LF: Spelling of units In-reply-to: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: At 17:23 25/02/02 -0500, you wrote: ><< Also, the word processor I use puts nasty red lines underneath 1 > mA, but seems to approve of 1mA - perhaps it is American influence at > work! >> > >Actually, we Americans are just following RadCom's lead on this. :-) MS Word allows the spell checker to be configured to ignore words containing numbers (this may be the default), thus 1mA would be ignored but 1 mA would get the nasty red line under the mA bit. ....and it seems that my email package has just followed the same rule (but both are American packages...!) 73 Rob