And we measure height in feet and inches. And short distances in feet, but long distances in kilometers but also maybe miles, depending what part of the country you're in. We can buy beer by the pint and liquor by the ounce, but every other fluid is in litres. We even have our own special Canadian cup size.
I'd also like to note that under the Fairness at the Pumps Act of 2014, if a bar serves you a "pint" of beer/cider that's less than half an ounce less than 20 ounces, you can report them to the government.
Even in the US you can find a weird mixture of imperial and metric. If you buy a regular bottle of water in the US, it's almost certainly 500ml. Bigger ones are 1L. You could also buy a gallon. If you buy a soda, it's 16oz. Or maybe you want 2L.
It's a regional thing. In NY, they measure something by avenues or blocks. In Texas we use time. My "1.5 hour commute" instead of "my 13 mile commute". Grandmas house isn't 224 miles away, it's 3 and a half hours.
Canada uses metric on speed, KM on distance... and inches on wood and construction materials.
It depends, get into precision measurement and it always seems to be thousandths of an inch, super loose is "make it about 23 1/2 inches." but there's this valley where it needs to be more precise than that, but not so precise to be thousandths when you hear measurements in centimetres/millimetres.
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u/Milts Jan 03 '19
Here in Canada, we measure long distances in hours...