The CNN article about the metric system angered me so much that I sent this message through their feed back page:
"The article by Todd Leopold about the 'wrong' metric system has angered me. Another of these American attacks on the metric system. If the metric system is wrong, I suppose that it should be replaced globally by American units. I challenge Mr. Leopold to find out about the Mendenhall Order of 1893 and about an agreement by English speaking non-metric countries in 1959 about the standardization of their Imperial and US Customary measuring units. He will find out that the 'wrong' metric system now defines all those splendid and vastly superior American units." Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
