Dear Editor,
Thanks to Bob Groeneveld for the amusing column [Old Adages Don’t Always Translate, March 29, Langley Advance] ‘metricizing’ English expressions.
But Bob should know that the pound in the expression ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’ refers to currency, not weight.
So the proper ‘metricization’ would be ‘in for a penny, in for $1.81’ based on the current exchange with the pound sterling.
Rudy Ydenberg, Langley