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Re: Meauring Volts?



John Clement wrote:

... Often college students have the same difficulty.
This difficulty of course happens in daily life. For example people will
say you need a certain square footage of shingles to cover your roof, or the
yardage of material is ...

The horror, the horror!

I shudder to think of the difficulties faced by
those who speak of yardage.

We must punish them severely, lest they become
emboldened to perpetrate even worse crimes, such
as
-- using "moving forwards" instead of "moving forward".
-- using "entitled" instead of "titled".
-- using "over 10" instead of "more than 10".
-- pronouncing "Westminster" with three syllables.
-- opening their eggs on the wrong end.