In article >,
sd > wrote:

> In article <Eht4i.4028$TU1.2283@trnddc07>,
> "wff_ng_7" > wrote:
>
> > So here we are 30 years later, and the USA is one of only 3
> > countries in the world still not using metric. The other two are
> > Liberia and Burma. That's great company to keep.
>
> It's an American thing. Look at the "Coalition of the Willing"....

I am quite familiar with the metric system, but I still have to do the
math in my head for kilometers per hour to miles per hour and liter to
gallon conversions to think the result. Seeing a tsp in grams isn't easy
either. In other words, I still think in the old and familiar terms.
When I was the most familiar with the metric system in 1970, I still
thought of liters as liters and quarts as quarts. I drank part of a
quart of milk and made a liter of 1N potassium permanganate solution. I
never truly connected the two. My bad.
If the U.S. converted to metric in one fell swoop which should have been
done fifty years ago if at all, we'd probably cope after an enormous
amount of bitching for two years. Boy, would the traffic in this group
go up!

leo

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