[Inyo-Mono]

I refuse to be Euro-fied, rejected the metricifacation of the U.S. back in the 1970s (noticed all the metric road signs are gone now), and to this day reject any metric measurements, cause, I am a ‘murican, not a Euro weenie.

[WellyP]

I lived out of the country for a long time and had to use Metric. Now that I’m home I use what is easiest for the job. Think of it as “Spanglish” where the word that best fits the situation pops out. :)

[Dr. Sivana]

to this day reject any metric measurements, cause, I am a ‘murican, not a Euro weenie.

Problem is, some things stuck. For instance, because two liters (67.6 oz.) is a tad more than a half-gallon, pretty much all big bottles of soda had to start go to liters so that the competition could claim a better value. Also, it is really hard to find a medical strength (outside of aspirin) described in grains instead of milligrams. The U.S. system was developed before anything outside of pharmaceuticals and gunpowder needed really small measurements.

A bigger problem is that we have a partial metrification of our system using the American labels. One advantage of our system is that most of our measurements have numerous factors. A quarter-pound is four ounces, a third of a foot is four inches. Our system is fraction heavy, while the rationalist Metric system forces everyone to use decimals, and sometimes having no commonly used measurements between very small measurements (gram) and pretty big measurements (kilogram, as nobody seems to gotten in the habit of using decagram or hectogram). Still, that small bag of potato chips no longer states 1 3/4 ounces, but 1.75 ounces. Silly.