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| ▲ | kube-system 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There are many people in America who do not know the difference, the mistake is fairly common. | | |
| ▲ | bee_rider 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | At this point they are just American units, right? Since the UK has upgraded already. | | |
| ▲ | cjs_ac 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The origin of US Customary units is British, even if the US, Liberia and Myanmar are the last countries still using it. The UK has almost entirely adopted metric (yards and miles are still used for measuring distances on roads and pints are still used for milk and beer, and the last government made the eccentric decision to permit pints for wine, which no producer used because they couldn't get the bottles), but these systems of units have identities beyond whether or not they're in use anywhere. EDIT/CORRECTION: Milk is sold in multiples of 568 mL, so while the quantities are pints, the measurement is metric. | |
| ▲ | ascorbic 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Beer and cider are the only drinks that are legally not sold by metric volume in the UK. They have to be served by the pint, 2/3, 1/2 or 1/3. Every other drink has to use metric. | | |
| ▲ | dghf an hour ago | parent [-] | | But that just means the quantity has to be expressed in metric units, possibly in addition to imperial, correct? E.g. I currently have a carton of milk in my fridge that’s labelled “2272ml 4 pints”. |
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| ▲ | ZeWaka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's why we call it the US Customary System. | |
| ▲ | rafram 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not really. The UK uses imperial units for most of the things you use units for in daily life (roads, cooking, drink sizes, body weight, utilities, land area...), even though they theoretically converted to metric. Canada is similar. | | |
| ▲ | mrwh an hour ago | parent [-] | | _Human_ body weight. I grew up measuring everything in kilos apart from people, which has I guess what amounts to its own wholly idiosyncratic scale, the stone, that no one I've since met outside of the UK has heard of. |
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| ▲ | dghf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Many Americans do claim to use imperial units. They’re wrong, but they do claim it. | |
| ▲ | alnwlsn 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The (incorrect) claim is indeed made in every single metric vs "imperial" comments section I've come across. | | |
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