On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 02:44:16 -0000 (UTC), Leon Schneider
wrote:

wrote on Wed, 07 Dec 2016 17:53:48 -0500:

and the inch, foot, mile, fehrenheit temperatures, lbs and ounces and
tons (as compared to tonnes)and a whole lot of other measurements you
did NOT change.. Your fluid measure was changed to short-change the
brits.

Until this very moment, I had alays thought a tonne was just a British
spelling of ton!
A TONNE is a metric ton, or a "long ton" - 1000 Kg or 2200 lbs.