"Rob Morley" wrote in message
news:20181021172018.49b9fdb8@Mars...
It must be one of the few measurements in the imperial
system that has survived Europe's use of the SI metric system.

Some Germans still use Fuß, Zoll and Pfund as we use foot, inch and
pound.

Well I never knew that. I always thought that units such as foot, inch and
pound were peculiar (*very* peculiar!!!) to Britain and countries such as
US, Canada and Australia that had British ex pats. I hadn't realised that
non English-speaking countries had at one time used imperial units.