The UK is supposedly metric most people still think and talk in imperial - most shops give both measurements.
I think the EU gave up enforcing it.
edit: sorry, by most people I mean people I know who grew up before metric was introduced.
I think the EU gave up enforcing it.
edit: sorry, by most people I mean people I know who grew up before metric was introduced.
And what measurements are still signed / represented in some way in imperial measurements in the UK? Road signs, speedometers and beer at a bar in a pub. Everything else is presented in metric and everybody I know uses metric for everything else.
Milk is still sold multiples of pints, with the litre value listed.
Laptop screens are measured in inches.
In my mind, miles for roads is really the only standout left. I don't think of pint as a measure, but the name of a particular type of glass.
Outside of that I've just never found a practical use for the imperial system. It's bad enough trying to translate things to american and back, let alone trying to keep track of a US gallon being 4/5ths of an imperial gallon ..
(Of course, had we switched to 500ml glasses, leaving ale in 568ml bottles, we'd be stuffed. A point to bear in mind if contemplating a piecemeal transition.)
For example:
- I struggle to visualise feet or inches, we always used metric units at school so metres and cms are what I understand - kilograms for weight is much more natural to me than stones or ounces (really, I have no idea how much an ounce is, although I kind of know a pound is a small bag of sugar-ish) - miles are probably the only imperial unit I'd use, but even still, I find km much easier to reason about, perhaps because I have lived in Europe in the past. - oh, and the trusty pint of course!