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Originally Posted by Kingswood
The only difficulty I have with US measurements is where the conversions are different to British measures,
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Did you know that Americans call imperial measures "English measures"?
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That is what comes of growing up during the time of Metric conversion. My late father loathed Metric, but I learned Metric in school, so it was natural to become fluent in both systems. He was even suspicious of decimal currency when it was first introduced.
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I learned both at school too, the result is that I mix and match -they work quite well together: "It's 7 inches 2 cm long" it so much easier to visualise than twenty-something cm or 7 and several 16ths of an inch.
