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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (178517)	9/21/2021 8:01:59 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217749

<<Some tea please>> The UK went completely metric, apart for measuring speed and distances in miles instead of km... and that is slowly changing. The change over was difficult, but people of my generation, (the over 60's), were taught in school to use both metric and imperial. For a number of years, warehouses everywhere were having to stock materials in three sizes. Imperial, "Imperial but metric", and metric. Meanwhile ships were crashing into rocks and reefs using charts with depths measured in meters instead of fathoms. We won't be going back. I am sure of that. The UK did a far more thorough move to decimilization then the USA did, as I found out later. Street markets and farmers markets have always liked the imperial system. The units had developed over time to suit popular demand. There is little harm in it, once political motivations don't take root. No way would we be going back to imperial systems generally after the trauma of decimilizing the nation. It would be easier for everyone to learn to drive on the other side of the road. -g-