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You can find occasional uses in many countries. TV screens are advertised in inches here in Denmark, although I noticed the last one I bought was "34 inch, 86.

You can find occasional uses in many countries. TV screens are advertised in inches here in Denmark, although I noticed the last one I bought was "34 inch, 86.00cm" in the detailed specification -- the inches were just marketing. Old water pipes have some sort of pre-metric size. Several countries (e.g. France) use the word pound (livre) to mean 500g, which could confuse visitors into thinking something non-metric is being used. I noticed that in south America.

Svip 4y ago
No one really does it any more, but "half-pound" (halvt pund) in Danish means 250g, which was the common way of ordering butter before the supermarkets took over (and why butter used[0] to come in packages of 250g). Similarly, in Sweden, one mile is 10 km. [0] These days, and selling butter in 200g packages to keep the prices seemingly low.
- InCityDreams 4y ago
  > [0] These days, and selling butter in 200g packages to keep the prices seemingly low. And that's why i do my shopping now based on €/kg. There are some very telling differences between even the same manufacturer: last thing i was looking at was gin [the drink] € per litre. Just a visually minor difference in bottle size was a substantial difference in a) cost and perceived value and b) cost and actual value.
giva 4y ago
Water piping is still specified in inches, at least in Italy. Also in Italy, when dealing with agricolture, forestry, and related services, non-SI surface units are still commonly used, at leat in the north: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertica_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura)#Superficie https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertica_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura)... https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giornata_piemontese https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giornata_piemontese https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura)
williamdclt 4y ago
> Several countries (e.g. France) use the word pound (livre) to mean 500g Note that nobody I know below the age of 70 uses the "livre" unit in France. It's something you see pretty much only in old recipes
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  Cereal production is still expressed in “quintal/hectare” with quintal keeping its old meaning of 100 livres but using the metric ones so 100kg.

Svip 4y ago

No one really does it any more, but "half-pound" (halvt pund) in Danish means 250g, which was the common way of ordering butter before the supermarkets took over (and why butter used[0] to come in packages of 250g). Similarly, in Sweden, one mile is 10 km. [0] These days, and selling butter in 200g packages to keep the prices seemingly low.

InCityDreams 4y ago
> [0] These days, and selling butter in 200g packages to keep the prices seemingly low. And that's why i do my shopping now based on €/kg. There are some very telling differences between even the same manufacturer: last thing i was looking at was gin [the drink] € per litre. Just a visually minor difference in bottle size was a substantial difference in a) cost and perceived value and b) cost and actual value.

giva 4y ago

Water piping is still specified in inches, at least in Italy. Also in Italy, when dealing with agricolture, forestry, and related services, non-SI surface units are still commonly used, at leat in the north: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertica_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura)#Superficie https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertica_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura)... https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giornata_piemontese https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giornata_piemontese https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura)

williamdclt 4y ago

> Several countries (e.g. France) use the word pound (livre) to mean 500g Note that nobody I know below the age of 70 uses the "livre" unit in France. It's something you see pretty much only in old recipes

WastingMyTime89 4y ago
Cereal production is still expressed in “quintal/hectare” with quintal keeping its old meaning of 100 livres but using the metric ones so 100kg.