By the end of the 20th century, the English-speaking peoples were beginning to grasp the concept of measurement units that are multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 rather than 9 or 21.
By the end of the 21st century, they'll have every chance to learn that "100 kilometres" is shortened 100 km/h, not 100 KPH and "5 metres" is written 5 m, not 5 Mts.
By the end of the 22nd century, they will hopefully learn that when you transcribe languages in which the distinction between long and short vowels is important (such as Thai), it might make sense to mark a short sound with one letter and a long sound with two letters.
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