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Monday January 31, 2005
Just To Be Different
Sometimes I wonder if the Britain and the US do things differently just to be ornary.
Index cards, those 3 inch by 5 inch cards of heavy paper, have a million and one uses. They are widely available in both the US and Great Britain.
In the US they are designated as 3 x 5 Index Cards, while in the UK they are 5 x 3 Record Cards (See photo).
3x5? 5x3? It is difficult to know who went first and who followed with the opposite designation.
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Comment from:
Bg [Visitor]
Be glad you aren't trying to use 'typing paper' theirs is about 2" longer than ours and always sticks out of the file.
Monday January 31, 2005 @ 17:15
Comment from:
Natalie [Visitor]
How interesting. Goodness. That is something to wonder about isn't it? Who went first with the index cards. Maybe they had a sceret meeting and negotiated that Britain would be 5x3 and the US would be 3x5. Funny.
Thursday June 16, 2005 @ 06:07 Comments are closed for this post.
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