>>>>>People get used to certain ways. Personally, I have strong 'metric background', but I got used to miles/pounds so backward conversion causes me some inconvenience, though I still dislike 5'7"-like sizes.
>>>>
>>>>I especially dislike 5/16" or 7/64" -like sizes. :)
>>>>But what completely does not make any sense to me is the Fahrenheit scale. Though, it was invented by a German. :-)
>>>
>>>The whole system makes no sense.
>>>
>>>Foot = 12 inches
>>>Yard = 3 feet
>>>Rod = 5 1/2 yards
>>>Chain = 22 yards
>>>Furlong = 220 yards
>>>Mile = 8 furlongs or 1760 yards or 5280 feet
>>>Acre = 4 roods or 1210 sq yards
>>>1 pint = 4 gills
>>>1 quart = 2 pints
>>>1 gallon = 4 quarts
>>>1 peck = 2 gallons
>>>1 bushel = 4 pecks
>>>
>>>This is all complete gibberish.
>>
>>Add to this "the whole 9 yards" and it will be complete. :)))
>
>I like the difference between ounce and troy ounce. It helped me few times on other boards to fill an expert role.

If I would just have enough things that they use the troy ounce to measure... :-)