wrote:

Imperial is referring to the british system, which you yanks have hung
onto with so much love since the revolution, and the britts have
pretrty much replaced with Metric.

We did not hang onto it, we created totally new standards based only vaguely
on the British standards. So a pint of beer here gives you substantially
less beer than it does in London.

It's true that the US is the only country left in the world still using the
British Thermal Unit.
--scott

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