Europeans Laugh At Imperial: Americans, It’s Time To Prove Them Wrong In This Measurements Quiz

I am american and wish we followed through back in in the 1970's then our government was trying to do nation wide standardized switch over. We learn the metric system in school. Liquor is universal along with health & beauty products and they are all labeled in metric.

As do their other neighbour - Mexico.

I'm American, sadly, we have a lot to be ashamed of. It's just the beginning. I wanted to learn the metric system when in 5th grade. We were supposed to.... the next year nothing about it. Only soda bottles are in metric system. The world is racing by us, in so many ways and levels.

So do NASA, the American Military and Universities and all the three-letter angencies. Same with so-called "Military Time" - which is just the normal format in the rest of the world. The US save metric measurements for only two major uses: Ammunition and d***s.

Forgot to say, possibly the worst thing about US food measurement is that they use fluid ounce without specifying the 'fluid'. If something calls for ten ounces of something you may not be able to be sure whether it's 10 fl oz. in volume or 10 oz. in weight. With some ingredients like flour the latter is twice as much as the former.

- perhaps worth noting that a Roman pace was the distance between "right foot down, and right foot down again" (if you see what I mean): twice the modern reckoning of a pace at least here in the UK. There have been lots of different distances referred to as a "mile". There's a table on Wikipedia of different miles which (I think - decyphering Fraktur is not something I'm good at) states that an old Swabian mile was 18000 ells reckoned as 10.6884 kilometres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#German. (In this case, 1 ell = 593.8mm or about 23.378 modern inches - close to 23 3/8" - which I'd guess was once 24 inches according to some definition of an inch). Give me SI or give me a headache... 🤣

(oh boy - downvoted for basically providing relevant information. Again...)

P.S. The US customary system of units is older than and distinct from the UK's Imperial system - the Imperial system consolidated various units and generally simplified things (e.g., got rid of dry and fluid volume measures being different). US customary units are being stealthily phased out in some cases. E.g., 1 US fluid oz properly speaking is 29.5735295625 mL, but 1 US fl oz has been re-defined as 30ml for food packaging. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units#Fluid_volume