> Most of the world is not speaking English (but it is using the metric system). Okay then. In most of the English-speaking world, and all of the English-spea

> Most of the world is not speaking English (but it is using the metric system). Okay then. In most of the English-speaking world, and all of the English-speaking metric world, we use the word tonne. > Is it because they so obviously stole the word from the French? Perhaps the North Americans could start calling them Freedom Tonnes?