Re: Cal Lab Magazine - International Journal of Metrology
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:56 AM Tom Lee < tomlee@...> wrote: I disagree, more strongly now than before, given the citation that you present in bold. The key word that you have missed is ¡°symbol¡±. One certainly should not add an ¡°s¡± to pluralize a symbol. But the unit¡¯s name is not a symbol. The symbol for watt is W, but the unit¡¯s name is watt.
This was the point I¡¯ve made a couple of times already. Can we get off the carousel now?
A power of ¡°2 watt¡± is simply wrong.
You'd not say "a 2 watts light bulb" though, would you?
When used adjectivally, it seems there is no plural.? But you'd probably say that light bulb consumes (dissipates?) "2 watts" when supplied with its rated voltage.
I think the standards people are doomed on this one, especially for plus or minus 1 of whatever which most English speakers will always want to be singular.
Orin.
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