AMERICANS IN GREAT MEASURE

摘要

It is a popular misconception that one can see in the brand of sarcasm it generates: remarks such as "Give them 2.54 cm, and they'll take 1.6 km." In such swipes, it is hinted by the speaker that the rise of the metric system of measurement in America will result in a permanent proliferation of conversion tables and a notion that metric is here merely to compete with, and not replace, the country's legacy units (inches, feet, pounds).