If you’re a Canadian writer and spell the Canadian, I’d love to know what you do about a forty-two inch flat screen television.
Canadian’s use the metric system, so should it be a 106.68 centimetres? Or maybe 1.0668 metres?
Both seem rather silly to me.
I think using inches is okay in this case.
Any opinions?
Thanks for reading . . .
Anytime a writer makes the reader stub a toe and an editor lets it go through, it should be on purpose.
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I think you’re good with inches. I’ve never heard anyone refer to the size of a TV in anything but inches, although using metres makes it sound bigger to me for some reason.
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I think I agree with you. Inches it is.
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Here in Australia we also use the metric system, but we do refer to televisions in inches.
What gets confusing is trying to cool from an American recipe…..
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Cook*
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Honestly, we Canadians use inches to describe measurement a lot. I think in inches rather than centimetres, and pounds instead of kilograms, and I know a lot of other people do, too. Dunno why. Maybe because we watch so much American television / movies!
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So true. Confusing life for Canadians.
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I notice my younger friends use kilograms and centimetres more, to describe weight and height in particular. 😉
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Oh oh. Are we getting older? 🙂
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