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In article <2882@hubcap.UUCP> billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>     But in a country which continues to use the obsolescent British
>     measurements when even Britain has abandoned it in favor of the
>     far more sensible metric system, such stupidity is to be expected.

It's not stupidity... 

As far as I can recall from history lessons a long, long time ago, in 1776 or so
the US Congress adopted a currency system based on the decimal system instead
of on the British currency system.
Congress also decided that English would the the language of the country, 
instead of German. Those in favor of English won with the smallest possible
margin of only _1_ vote. I wonder what the course of history would have been
had German become the US language.
Wouldn't life be much easier if the USA would speak German :-)
and thus also use the metric system ? Even the word 'dollar' is derived from
German!

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