We are neither 100% metric nor 100% Customary.  We are either "semi-metric" or 
"all screwed up."
 
I would propose the country can't be considered fully metric until the 
following is true.  Metric measure is either required or allowed, on  a 
standalone basis, for all measurement purposes.  Customary is never required 
nor acceptable on a standalone basis.  Dual is allowed, but the Customary is 
only supplemental information.

--- On Mon, 6/18/12, Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:51712] United States transition to SI
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 12:01 AM


I wonder with most of not all countries in the world that have
completed Metrication, or in transition of use of the SI System, is
the United States considered a non-metric country? Knowing of United
States history of being a co-signer of the Metric Convention and our
slow transition and sometimes opposition to Metrication, shared with
the United Kingdom, is it considered a metric country?
-- 
Sincerely,
Edward B.

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