Just to be clear, I think what most folks mean when they say that Americans (or Canadians or Brits) tend not to use metric, they mean that these people tend to use Imperial (or US Customary) for describing length, mass, and temperature. (I think it's fair to say that the use of metric units where no popular Imperial unit is well known, like watts, or when the metric unit has been used practically forever, like the second for time, doesn't really "count".)
Ezra
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From: Nat Hager III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Nat Hager III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jul 13, 2005 6:25 PM
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Subject: [USMA:33549] RE: Metric in the U.S.
Lately when I go to the supermarket, I find more and more products that are hard-metric (ie. have even sizes 3L or 500mL). This is encouraging but nowhere do I see metric in use by the public.
I wouldn't be too sure of the latter. I use the liter as a household term - including at the supermarket - and no one seems to call me to task. Maybe they note but don't say anything, but then it's an academic question!Nat
