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Ground coffee in GRS.
On a pack of Hacendado ground coffee at Mercadona, in big letters: PACK AHORRO 2 x 500 GRS. The symbol for the gram is g: lowercase, no period, no plural. It is not a commercial abbreviation, it is an SI symbol, and it never changes: 1 g, 500 g, 1000 g. “GRS.” manages three mistakes…
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El País and the Formula 1 Km/h
In El País’ sports section, the Formula 1 circuit map shows speeds in “Km/h”. But the prefix “kilo” is always written with a lowercase k: uppercase K is the kelvin. Taken literally, “Km/h” would be a kelvin·metre per hour — a fascinating unit, but not very useful for measuring the speed of a Formula 1…