Most Zoll Stocke have only metric graduations. I have a 'duimstok' (duim = Zoll = inch), also only with metric graduation. Of course, I do not buy measuring instrumetsn with wrong units on them. As long as there are no inches on an inch stick, I do not see how the use of that word can mean some hankering to old measurement times.
Today, Zoll does mean inch. The old Zolls (there have been many of them) have gone, now it can only mean the English variety of an outdated measuring unit. Maybe the person who responded read some trash on the BWMA sites. There we can find the 8.89 cm nonsense as well. Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
