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Re:230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metr... by defrost on Sunday January 22, 2023 @05:22AM (#34475998) 

    While the American system of measurement often is referred to as the Imperial System, this usage is erroneous.

    The US, ever since the formative years of the New World-nation, has used the *US Customary System*.

    The Imperial System, alternatively, was established in 1824 for Great Britain and its colonies. Even today, decades after officially switching to SI (metric) units, volume in the UK is measured in British Imperial units.
~ https://blog.ansi.org/2018/06/why-pint-bigger-in-uk-than-in-...

For further fun, what year did the US Office of Weights and Measures adopt the metric system as the foundation for the Official National System and formally define the US foot in terms of the SI metric length?

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