Even more mysterious... if England is on the metric system, why is Ale sold in pints?


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>But why - it's so logical: if one foot has twelve inches, and one yard has three feet (funny animal, eh?), then how many ounces go into a pound? Of course, sixteen. Given all that, how many feet in a mile?
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>It's so easy to understand (neither do I :).
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>BTW, the credit card was invented so we foreigners (or is "internationals" the PC term?) wouldn't have to learn to recognize the coins. Not that having some digits on them wouldn't help...