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> in the UK at least there's still a huge, possibly majority, definitely passionate, group that prefer imperial units.

Erm... no. Anyone over 60, probably, but young people here don't even have any idea what a pound or ounce is.

It's slightly more confusing for young people over here -- we mostly deal in metric, but we still do have pints of beer (from the tap -- the bottles are 330 or 500 ml), miles, and we measure ourselves in feet, inches, and stone (although you do run in to people who use cm & kg, so that varies a bit)

Not only that, but draught beer and cider have to be sold in pints (or 1/3, 1/2 or 2/3) while nothing else is allowed to be, so a "pint" of coke is supposed to actually be 500ml, and spirits are in multiples of 25ml or 35ml.

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