The US government is not consistent in the terms that it uses. The term
'inch-pound' appears to be common in the top level documents.


Federal standard 376B 1993 = 'inch-pound'.
Metric conversion act 1975 as amended to 1988 = 'English system'
Omnibus trade and competitiveness act = 'traditional systems'
Savings in construction act = 'inch-pound'
NIST handbook 13 = 'inch-pound'


FPLA = 'inch/pound' and 'customary inch/pound'
(it also has the bizarre term 'SI metric')

UPLR = 'inch-pound' and 'customary inch-pound'

The UPLR and FPLA both make the mistake of using two terms for the same
thing. They don't agree on whether to use a '/' or a '-'.



Google results and search terms:
4 american-customary .gov
7 inch-foot-pound .gov
19 non-metric-unit .gov
33 foot-pound-second .gov
85 customary-unit .gov
127 imperial-unit .gov
158 british-unit .gov
238 non-metric-units .gov
285 british-units .gov
470 american-units .gov
545 american-unit .gov
586 english-unit .gov
675 customary-units .gov
958 US-customary .gov
1080 imperial-units .gov
1260 inch-pound .gov
1690 english-system .gov
12800 english-units .gov

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