>That's about as bad as the sign I saw in a Canadian hardware store.
>They were selling "metric yardsticks".
There is nothing wrong with this. Long after units like "yard" and "feet"
are forgotten, you can still have things called "yardsticks" that measure
distance, only they will be calibrated in meters, and nobody will realize
why they were called this.
As an analogy, we still using the term "plumbing" to describe piping, long
after such pipes ceased to be made of lead (plumbum = latin for lead).
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