Chen Xiao Fan wrote:
> Why people in the States still use those antique units is beyond me.
> Even the British now uses the ISO units.

I chalk it up to insular nationalism, laziness, and "Not Invented Here." 
  Anyone imposing a change at the Federal level would meet resistance 
back home.

I was in grade school in the brief span of years when the U.S. flirted 
with metric, so my cohort knows what a centimeter is.  But I think few 
people older or younger do, other than scientists/engineers and people 
who travel elsewhere (which is a minority).
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Timothy J. Weber
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