were are half imperial half metric. we use miles and pints, and measure in pounds but the government made it illegal and attempted to bring metric in. people wrote in metric with the imperial at the side and they eventually gave up just this year in fact. I still dont understand litres and ml. I measure small things in centimetres but use feet from 30cm onwards. I prefer metres to yards though but never kilometres. I use celcius for small temperatures because it makes it sound colder and fareinhight for big because it sounds hotter :)
Metric is really well suited to small quantities - I find it easier to use inches or feet for large things. Trying to visualize "155 cm" is harder for some reason. Maybe it's because we all have a couple of feet handy :-)
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