In the case of California and the other states acquired from Mexico after 1848,
the US promised to respect the culture of the people who were already living
there. The people did not use foot/pound, they used other units than foot/pound
and the international date standard (year/month/day or
Parker, yours is an excellent suggestion! However, the name would
still understate the importance of the technology -- a system of
"weights and measures." For many people, that means the number that
pops up on the bathroom scale in the morning and the distance to
work. How about:
Decimal
I think that’s an excellent idea! (Disclosure: I grew up in Australia, where it
became illegal to use non-decimal measurements for commercial purposes in
1972—6 years after they got rid of non-decimal currency). One day I will
ventilate over my difficulty of having to revert to ounces, furlongs
Parker Willey Jr. wrote,
> Hi:
> I was thinking the other day that some people think the word
> "metric" is foreign. That could be one of the monkey wrenches
> that keeps our country mostly using legacy measures.
> So, since we use a decimal system of coinage, I propose that we
> call the
