Phil Chernack wrote: >They are actually referred to as "customary units in use in the U.S." or >U.S. customary. This is the way NIST and most laws refer to them. It >allows for the difference between Imperial and U.S. > >I prefer to call them "non-metric units" or DMA (dumb-ass units) >
That's a bit tortuous, shortening dumb-ass units to DMA. I would have chosen DAU. At a stretch, we could pronounce it "Duh!" Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
