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"pat" > wrote in message
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> 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.
Hmmm! How backward!
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