ultred ragnusen wrote:
wrote:

That's strange that Europeans use a half-metric half-what-you-call-Imperial
standard of units.

Not necessarily the rest of Europe but the UK.

Do the Germans and French also use "inch" sizes for their ratchets?


The French at least have a word for "inch" which translates as "thumb"
and is a colloquial measure of length. They also have a word for "foot"
which would be recognised as a length.

There are lots of other historical French units, some of which are still
used in particular applications in (UK) English such as printing (e.g.
points).

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Graham J