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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.
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I use metric every where except
- on the road where I use mph but I measure distance in km, we should switch that to metric
- in pub it's pint/half but most pubs don't give a full 568ml of fluid so really it's a big drink or small drink.
- archery as imperial rounds are at yard distances, arrow length is just measured in inches and bow draw weights is in pounds. (Although the mass of equipment is metric but arrows are in grains.)
I like the anglicised Good News Bible as it uses metric measures throughout.