Pennyaline wrote:
>James Silverton wrote:
>>Well, I won't hold onto my hat since theMetric systemhas been *legal*
>>here for about a century. I'd also forgotten what was a "Chopine" :-)
>
>It may be legal, young fella, but it isn't American!

There are US laws that forbid metrication. US Federal law (the FPLA,
for example) forbids metric-only labels on most prepackaged things you
see in the supermarket.