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.

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

No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards, miles) or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French ...