Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15607 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2002 12:53:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 24 Feb 2002 12:53:34 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 27935 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2002 12:53:34 -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; 24 Feb 2002 12:53:34 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16ezaD-0007JA-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:24:57 +0000 Received: from cmailenv4.svr.pol.co.uk ([213.218.77.56]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16ezaC-0007J5-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:24:56 +0000 Received: from [62.21.135.64] (helo=w8k3f0.freeler.nl) by cmailENV4.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16ey3K-0002kK-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:46:54 +0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020224133138.009f8e50@POP3.freeler.nl> X-Sender: FRE0000086604@POP3.freeler.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:51:36 +0100 To: "LF-Group" From: "Dick Rollema" Subject: LF: Spelling of units MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit 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.

In our country units that are derived from the names of scientists are written with a lower case letter; for instance volt, ampère, watt, etc.; not Volt, Ampère, Watt. When abbreviated we use a capital letter, so V, A, W etc. We also write "5 ohm, not 5 Ohms" (no plural).  And we insert a space between the number and the unit: "3 V and not 3V".

I wonder what the rules are in other countries, inside [including the UK  :-)]  and outside Europe because I see a lot of variations in spelling of units on the reflector.

73, Dick, PA0SE