[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Pierre

but they didn't did they?

For engineering (calculations etc), they definitely went away, but in everyday life........

I still weigh myself in Stones & Pounds

I measure my height in Feet and Inches

I drink pints

I recently bought some land was that measured in acres

My speedo reads mph, signs gives distances in miles.

I measure cold temperatures in Celsius and hot ones in Fahrenheit.

We as a nation are nominally bi-lingual between metric and imperial and happily use both depending on the scenario.

Originally Posted by Damien

Really? Is this common? All the others I do as well (although weight I tend to use both) but I don't think I've come across people using Fahrenheit much in the U.K?

Some recent surveying on who uses what.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyl...do-britons-use

Regarding the temperature question

There is also one measure that we asked about where metric is firmly assimilated: temperature. Almost three quarters of Britons (72%) say they use Centigrade to describe how hot it is, compared to only one in five (19%) who say Fahrenheit. Even among the oldest Britons – those aged 70 and above – metric leads by 54% to 36%.