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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deadsmurf" data-source="post: 4740303" data-attributes="member: 25341">Here in Canada, a country that has semi recently gone through metrication (started in the early 70s) We're still not completely over to metric.  Trades are still done in Feet and inches, as are heights and weights in the general populous; but all food (except beer is still a pint of drought if you get that) is in grams and liters, speeds are Km/h (though you still say 'millage' when talking about gasoline efficiency or odometer total, even if the figure is in Kms), you get temperature from the news in Centigrade, and rain/snowfall amounts in mm/cm.In my estimation it will be a few generations yet until the imperial system is completely gone from Canada.  My generation, or the one before it was mostly exposed to metric through education and imperial from our parents.  Once we're all dead and gone everyday users of imperial will be mostly gone as well.I'm sure it will be similar in Britain, 60-70 years before most people are really truly metricized.</blockquote>