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mespilus
People who hark back to imperial measures with fondness and think subdividing units into 6, 12, 14, 16, etc at random made a whole lot of sense and was easy to remember. The fondness is, in fact, a coping strategy to mask the memories of repeated beating they received from serial abusers employed in the teaching profession when, as infants, they failed to grasp and memorise such a stuuuupid system.
Dilusionary 0.5 wits every one of them.