4 ms·
The confusion comes from naming American units "imperial" - after British, and having international - metric - system created by the French revolution, with "li
by avmich 3y ago
The confusion comes from naming American units "imperial" - after British, and having international - metric - system created by the French revolution, with "liberte" an important goal. So it could be argued that it's actually SI which has freedom units. On the other hands, Americans are quite often characterized as freedom "distributors"...
- jrmg 3y agoAmerican units of volume are different (most smaller by about 20%) to Imperial units.
- jdblair 3y agoThe American system is called "customary units." The pint, quart and gallon are all smaller than British imperial versions.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoMost Americans that I have pointed this out to look at me in disbelief. The vast majority have never heard of US Customary Units. Whenever they refer to their system of measure they say imperial, and many are unaware that volume measure in the Imperial system is different from US Customary. I fought again the use of imperial as the name for the system for over twenty years in a multinational company to no avail.
- jdblair 3y agoSend them this handbook from NIST! :) Section 2 covers all of the customary measurements, some with names hardly anyone knows (Apothecaries Units? Gunter's Chain Units?) https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/pml/wmd/pubs/2016/02/18/appc-16-hb44-final.pdf https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/pml/wmd/pubs/201...
- kwhitefoot 3y agoNIST is also a good source for information about SI!