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Value Villages are predominately Canadian. It's possible that the records weren't the problem, but that the girl wasn't used to inches.
by warwick 17y ago
Value Villages are predominately Canadian. It's possible that the records weren't the problem, but that the girl wasn't used to inches.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoI beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Inches_of_Snow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Inches_of_Snow
- truebosko 17y agoI don't know anyone here that uses centimetres over inches. IT's what we're taught in school and used on legal documents but everyone I talk to always speaks in inches.
- warwick 17y agoThe only three things I hear referred to in inches are height, woodworking, and paper sizes. Everything else tends to be metric. (23, lived in BC/AB/SK/MB/PQ/NB, your experiences may vary.)
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoIn my experience as a lifelong resident of the Centre Of The Universe (that would be Southern Ontario to non-Canadians), we buy butter by the pound, not by the 454-gram-package - no matter what it says on the wrapper. Also on the cooking theme, oven temperatures are measured in Fahrenheit and recipe quantities are measured in cups, teaspoons and tablespoons. For weather, summer temperatures are generally measured in Fahrenheit (because it's just not that impressive to say, "Man, it's 40 degrees out!") but winter temperatures are generally measured in Celsius (because it is impressive to say, "Man, it's minus 20 out!").
- warwick 17y agoI'll concede defeat on this one. I've heard most of those examples but they never even occurred to me. Other than my grandparents generation, I _never_ hear temperatures in Farenheit. Weird.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoNo worries. Canada is nominally a metrickified country, but the enthusiasm kind of fell off somewhere in the 1980s, and we never progressed much beyond soft metric. That is to say, we still extensively use imperial denominations, but expressed in metric terms - like the 454 g bar of butter, or the 341 ml bottle of beer. Other areas, like home construction, are still exclusively imperial. We use 8 foot 2-by-4 boards, not 2.4 m 5cm-by-10cm boards.