Male, brown hair, blue and white striped top: Feet and inches. Male, black hair and goatee ... ounces and miles are used alongside metric units like metres, millilitres and kilometres.

Feet, inches and gallons were a relic of a backwards ... And if you didn’t comply with the new metric zeitgeist, you could face severe consequences. For example, if you were a gas station ...

No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards ... It survives today as the metric system.

And when you buy beef by the pound or do your carpentry with inches and feet, you are the unwitting legacy of a populist, ...