Along with your coinage of WOMBAT correct?
(Way of measuring badly in America today)

Howard 

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If this is a new coinage of words, I beat them to it, in theory.

Run a search On the “Metric Today“ CD archive for the word “metrophobia,” 
which, about 15 years ago, I defined as fear of measurement change.

Paul Trusten
Midland, Texas
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> On Jun 12, 2020, at 22:59, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Metricophobia.
>
> An irrational fear and/or hatred of the Metric system.
>
> Nothing sets off someone's metricophobia by hearing, "Yeah, but what is that 
> in metric?"
>
> From "Urban Dictionary"
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