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Originally Posted by rogerg
I quite commonly swap between units of measurement part sentance. I switch them around all the time. Just yesterday I was in the hardware store and asked for a piece of aluminium that was 3 inches long, 2cm high and 3mm thick. [snip]
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Actually, the current Royal Auto has a little ditty from Ireland (naturally) where they have not quite gone fully metric. They mention a sign that says something like "speed limit 50kph for next 5 miles"...