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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 4164605" data-attributes="member: 10531">Well, if you call a couple of weeks' instruction in elementary school &quot;being taught&quot;.Oh, and the poll question is faulty.&nbsp; The U.S. does not use and has never used the Imperial System.[begin pedantry]The Imperial System was passed into law by the British Parliament in 1824, and came into force in 1826, decades after the Metric System was invented.&nbsp; Accordingly the Imperial System had neither the justification of being traditional or the justification of being a modern, rationalized system; it was an arbitrary mix of the two with neither rhyme or reason.&nbsp; You know, like the modern House of Lords.The U.S. measurements were the ones inherited from England prior to independence, such as the Queen Anne gallon created by the English Parliament in 1707, or the distance units established in 1592.&nbsp; None of the changes that were part of the Imperial System were ever adopted in the U.S. (though the British and American inches were harmonized to match the Canadian inch in the 1950s).[end pedantry]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="see, post: 4164605, member: 10531"] Well, if you call a couple of weeks' instruction in elementary school "being taught". Oh, and the poll question is faulty. The U.S. does [I]not[/I] use and has [I]never[/I] used the Imperial System. [begin pedantry] The Imperial System was passed into law by the British Parliament in 1824, and came into force in 1826, decades [I]after[/I] the Metric System was invented. Accordingly the Imperial System had neither the justification of being traditional or the justification of being a modern, rationalized system; it was an arbitrary mix of the two with neither rhyme or reason. You know, like the modern House of Lords. The U.S. measurements were the ones inherited from England prior to independence, such as the Queen Anne gallon created by the English Parliament in 1707, or the distance units established in 1592. None of the changes that were part of the Imperial System were ever adopted in the U.S. (though the British and American inches were harmonized to match the Canadian inch in the 1950s). [end pedantry] [/QUOTE]

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