On 1/18/2008 10:30 AM Ray Haddad spake thus:
Not true; metrification efforts have repeatedly failed here. There's some, but most commerce, etc., is carried out in our old Imperial, etc., units.
The military and scientific organizations use metric, but everyone else buys quarts of milk, gallons of paint, lumber by the foot and the inch, fabric by the yard, etc., etc. We're very defiantly anti-metric here (with which I agree wholeheartedly).