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Does England use the Imperial Measurement System?

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Does England use the Imperial Measurement System?

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We (the English) don’t use one system or the other exclusively. It is, sort of, an amalgamation of both. Go into a shop and ask for a quarter pound of cheese, and you’ll get that, but in most cases you could also ask for 100g of cheese, and the they would know what you mean. The price of fruit (for example) is given both per kilogram and per pound. (I think there was a case of a grocer who fought for the right to display prices per pound) Food packaging has the weight printed in grams, or kilograms. But milk will have both pints and litres printed on it. The road signs still measure in miles, but the price of petrol is given in pounds (money not weight) per litre. And the efficiency of the engine is given in miles per gallon. People will still generally speak of their height and weight in feet and stone. Computer and television screen sizes predominantly are measures in inches, but some also have the size in centimeters displayed. If you study a science based subject at school, college

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