John G wrote:

Personally I'd lump the following together:

UK & US - imperial (linear measurements, ie. inches,feet,yards,miles)
Rest of world - Metric (except for some bastions of Imperial
Colonisation)

Dave


It is worse than that .
The US has not started to get with it yet even though the law was passed
back around 1890.

The UK have made a token jesture to joining the rest of the world by
buying litres of petrol (gasoline) to travel miles on their roads.

Hey, don't feel bad. Our speed limit signs are in furlongs per
fortnight

Ken