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No. We are just contrary.
If it is hot we use Fahrenheit, cold we use centigrade. Height, feet and inches. Distance then miles if driving, Km if running.
Only Engineering is metric in this wonderful, mixed up, crazy kid country.
I love it.
RagnarHairybreeks-
this wonderful, mixed up, crazy kid country
American-influenced if every I heard it...
I assumed metric would have become more commonly used by the youth, but apparently not.
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Height, feet and inches.
Unless it’s the altitude of cities which is usually metric, and then it goes back to feet for aircraft altitude (though that’s an intl civil aviation rule).
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Muc-ed-off
I do find it odd/surprising how often my students refer to feet and inches. Is it an American influence?