XPost: sci.electronics.equipment
From: nobody@nowhere.com
On 7/13/2020 6:06 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:53:29 +0100, Pimpom wrote:
>
>> On 7/13/2020 12:51 AM, Tom Gardner wrote:
>>> On 12/07/20 19:01, Pimpom wrote:
>>>> On 7/12/2020 11:15 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:23:31 +0100, Cydrome Leader
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In sci.electronics.equipment Pimpom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> My mechanical slide caliper has a resolution of 0.001 inch. This
>>>>>>> means that it can display measurements with a precision of 1 mil,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What if your caliper had a resolution of 1 mil +/- 3 counts on the last
>>>>>> digit?
>>>> .............
>>>>>
>>>>> In America, what is a "mill"? In the UK, it used to mean a thousandth
of an
>>>>> inch, but people use it to mean a millimetre nowadays.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's not a mill. It's mil - single l. It means, and has always meant, a
>>>> thousandth of an inch. It's not an Americanism.
>>>
>>> In the UK "mill" means millilitre.
>>>
>>> If you want to refer to fractions of an inch, then
>>> it is /always/ "thou", i.e. thousandths of an inch.
>>>
>>> In the UK "mil/mill" /never/ means 0.001".
>>>
>>
>> My bad. This is the first time I heard that the mil is not used
>> as the unit for .001" in the UK. (I'm *not* an American).
>
> If you're not American why did you say "my bad"? Your bad what? Finish the
sentence!
>
So now you're a grammar Nazi? This after I (and others) spent
considerable time and effort patiently explaining to you a
concept that many/most readers here probably already knew, and
would quickly grasp if they didn't. Sheesh!
And is there a law against non-Americans using an American
expression? FYI I'm none of these: American, British, Australian
or Canadian - or a citizen of any other country where English is
natively spoken.
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