I don't feel so bad when there are engineers and scientists here who prefer metric vs. imperial for certain types of measurements. For work purposes, I have done design layout and physical planning for several libraries. I went imperial because I really didn't want to make an error because it would be costly and later time-consuming, to the organization..and all standard bookshelves in libraries are normally are 3 feet long/36 inches. Never had any facility coordinator that I worked with, come back to me and demand metric.

Bmmcosland-I asked my partner about 1/10 imperial length measurement. He is not certain but he thinks it might originate from the scale of sizes that engineers (civil) worked with ages ago.


What dearie has noticed in the some U.S. city engineering drawings is that some are in metric now for an American audience. He does look at them, in his line of business right now for cycling facility design purposes.

Thorn- would be xxxliters / 100 kms. in discussing fuel efficiencies? But then, we don't look at car advertising or pay much attention since we are car-free.

As for car fuel in Canada, it should be in liters advertised anywhere. My partner managed national computerization for his employer, an oil company, for fuel distribution at gas terminals, in his career. He had to know this.