The return of the lb

Originally Posted by Pierre

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

[mrmistoffelees]

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.

I think we've just agreed?

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Damien

I don't think I've come across people using Fahrenheit much in the U.K?

TV cooks?

I always use Celsius but that's because I've worked all my life in the industrial instrumentation sector where Celsius is the norm. (Except the USA)

[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%.

[tweetiepooh]

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.

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.

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.

YOU may but there are many youngsters who use metric entirely because that's what my generation and following younger teachers were teaching in school.

[Pierre]

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?

Yes, loads. I've never come across anyone that uses Fahrenheit in winter, it's alway 0 degrees or -5 etc.

But come summer, it's like, "It's going to be well into the 90's today!"

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Originally Posted by Maggy

YOU may but there are many youngsters who use metric entirely because that's what my generation and following younger teachers were teaching in school.

I was taught only metric in school too.

Originally Posted by Pierre

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.

All of these, except the last one.
I do not use Fahrenheit, hot or cold, its Celsius (well Centigrade actually, I never say 'Celsius').

Oh, and in school, we were taught metric.

[jonbxx]

Here we go, a useful primer;

Haha, thats pretty accurate.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

TV cooks?

I always use Celsius but that's because I've worked all my life in the industrial instrumentation sector where Celsius is the norm. (Except the USA)

Even though I would have thought they were American, same with the recipies that keep using 'cups'.

[Sephiroth]

Is that what everyone is asking for? Further confusion?

No…

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by jonbxx

Here we go, a useful primer;

Nice one, jonbxx!

[richard-john56]

I use to do a paper round when I was young and collected money on a Friday evening this was imperial and then decimalisation came in which caused all manner of difficulties especially for the older people e.g. if they gave me a pound note and then I would give change of a 50p, some 10p's and a 5p and a 2p, 1p this really confused them.

Measurements we started to learn metric at school alongside imperial.

When I started my printing apprenticeship (5 years) you had to learn the print measurements of points and picas which converted to imperial exactly along with this terminology of thins, thicks, mids, ems, clumps, furniture, coin keys, 36mo, 4to, 42mo, 8vo (happy days).