Can someone from England help me out? Lately I’ve been watching a few too many documentaries and I’ve noticed that in the U.K. they seem to be using pounds as a weight measurement, but online everyone acts like only the US does that. Is it true or?
I visit the UK often and it seems they use the metric officially but some older folks still use Imperial so everyone's just trying to be respectful and let them tell their weight in stones and distance in yards.
To my knowledge their are somewhere in between. I think they mentioned in Top Gear that they talk about petrol in litres, but talk about mileage in miles per galon.
Kind of how Europe almost exclusively uses the metric system, but talks about engines in non-metric Horsepowers
Babies' weights are still announced in pounds and ozs, people still weigh themselves in stones and pounds and give their height in feet and inches, but fabric is sold by the metre.
Milk is sold in pints as well as litres, beer is sold in pubs in pints or half pints but wine and spirits are measured in millilitres.
Road signs are in miles and yards, and as previously stated we talk about miles per gallon but petrol is sold by the litre.
We use °c for weather reports unless it is going to be very hot then the papers report in °f because it sounds more sensationalist.
Hope that makes everything clear :)
Kind of how Europe almost exclusively uses the metric system, but talks about engines in non-metric Horsepowers
Milk is sold in pints as well as litres, beer is sold in pubs in pints or half pints but wine and spirits are measured in millilitres.
Road signs are in miles and yards, and as previously stated we talk about miles per gallon but petrol is sold by the litre.
We use °c for weather reports unless it is going to be very hot then the papers report in °f because it sounds more sensationalist.
Hope that makes everything clear :)