User:Garamond Lethe/sandbox/kph


 * Here's the text sans cites: "Although a European Union directive requires the use of "km/h" as the abbreviation for kilometers per hour in official documents in all of its member states, "kph" and "k.p.h." are frequently used by both the Irish and British."  I think that's fairly straightforward to demonstrate.  Here are several documents from the gov.ie domain that use kph.


 * And here are several documents from Great Britain:

2002, 2004, 2008, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2011


 * These were culled from the first two pages that google returned. I left out a few that did not have obvious dates.  The trick is to use "site:gov.uk" in your google search for "kph".  That will limit the results to only those urls in the gov.uk domain.  There are about 7000 of them; many fewer for Ireland, but I suspect that's because only a few government documents are kept under ie.gov.


 * So if the text above is going to be excruciatingly correct, it would read: "Although a European Union directive requires the use of "km/h" as the symbol for kilometers per hour in official documents in all of its member states, the abbreviations "kph" and "k.p.h." are frequently used by both the Irish and British."


 * I would prefer to discuss these kind of citation discovery issues on the talk page of the article.