It appears that 'comfort' is the overriding factor. My daughter, who is 11, learned both in school. She prefers metric and cannot understand why we use the other at all when it is so confusing. Especially since almost all things displaying units of measurement now list it in both forms. She uses the 'wrong' side of the measuring cup even! :o) Of course her mother, who was raised using the English system (even though I learned the metric as well), gets a good laugh out of that one and still 'thinks' in the English units regardless. It's called 'programming' of another kind I believe. :o)

Perhaps when her generation is their 30s so the majority of Americans understand the metric system as well as the English, the U.S. will finally convert and join the world standard.

Tracy

>>Dragan;
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>>Even the English gave up their measurement system. Why do we hold on to it? In 1865 the Congress of the United States passed a law to allow our country to go metric. And so we wait...
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>>Tom
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>I went to England and Wales for two weeks last spring. They seem to have gone only halfway metric. Speed limit signs are in miles per hour. When I would talk to (maybe older) people about some measurements (probably distances), I would use metric units for their benefit and they would reply that they preferred English units.