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Britain's Imperial Measurements saved - Thanks to US
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11/05/2007 10:30:34
 
 
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Mathematics
Miscellaneous
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>>Britain's traditional imperial measures had been set a deadline of 2009 to change to metric measures, but that has now been scrapped following a change of heart at the European Commission.
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>oh dang... I so was looking forward to seeing the US going with metric measures. 4 years living in the country, and I have been refusing to learn to convert between inches, miles, centimeters, kilometers, pounds, kilos, gallons, litters... <s>

In a country where some motorbike engines even are measured in cubic inches - you've no chance!
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- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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