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   From: firstname@lastname.oc.ku   
      
   On 1/29/2012 1:45 PM, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:   
   > In article<6q2dnUIu24UG7rjSnZ2dnUVZ7q-dnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk>,   
   >     Andy Champ  wrote:   
   >> On 28/01/2012 11:05, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:   
   >>> But of you're so dismissive of a non decimal currency, why does the US   
   >>> stick to imperial measurements for just about everything else?   
   >   
   >> ... except pints and gallons of course.  The US "English" system has   
   >> never been used in England.   
   >   
   > IIRC, it has. The UK one was changed sometime after US independence. They   
   > stuck to the old units, understandably.   
   >   
   Yup.   
      
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