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pjc50today at 12:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

And in a few places they're different (US measuring "cup" vs UK, US gallon, etc)

edit: ref https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfnjb7h


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ch_123today at 1:06 PM

As someone who generally uses metric units, but grew up around English Imperial units - if an American says that a person weighs a certain number of pounds, I need to convert to stone and pounds in my head in order to get a meaningful mental model of how much that person weighs.

beardywtoday at 12:34 PM

UK doesn't use cups in recipes and fuel is dispensed in litres.

Road signs are still in miles.

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