wrote:
>> That's strange that Europeans use a half-metric half-what-you-call-Imperial
>> standard of units.
>
> Not necessarily the rest of Europe but the UK.
Do the Germans and French also use "inch" sizes for their ratchets?
> We only say gallons BUT when talking to the ex-colonies we have to say
> 'Imperial' because your pints and gallons are different from ours.
>
> 1 imperial (UK) pint = 1.2 US pint
> 1 imperial (UK) gallon = 1.2 US gallons
I see. Like you, we only speak of "gallons", where we don't ever need to
distinguish between your gallons and our gallons, I guess.