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Originally Posted by Volvo6
Really??? I pretty sure the foot/mile in common usage today in the US and the UK are the same!
A US gallon is smaller than an imperial one but other than that they are mostly the same.
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Agreed, that's my understanding.
Actually though, and moving on, I may have thought of a compromise...
...If the English-speaking nations that currently use the Imperial system were to adopt metric measurements in the cause of the common good, how the non-English speaking nations show a bit of give-and-take by requiring their citizens to adopt the English language which (the US version at least) is probably already the most universally understood language of international science and commerce?
A common system of measurements (metric) and a single Global language (English) would have huge and undeniable benefits, would it not?