On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:18:07 -0000, Steve Walker wrote:

On 27/02/2019 11:06, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Commander Kinsey wrote:
American is not imperial,

Of course it is, they use inches, pounds, etc.

But some of their measures like a gallon are different to ours, so we
aren't imperial enough.

Apparently, way back, we had numerous gallons: There were at least 4
different corn gallons, one ale gallon, a wine gallon, a London
'Guildhall' gallon, a Jersey gallon and a Guernsey gallon. I am sure
there were probably far more!

We simplified things by taking the imperial gallon (which equals 10lb of
water), while the Americans have standardised on the Queen Anne (wine)
gallon. So it seems we both simplified the existing system, but in
different ways.

And then the more forward thinking of us discarded all that **** and went metric.