"Bill" wrote in message
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Back in the 70's they took some early steps with some highway signs in
KM's.
That didn't last. Basically Americans like what's familiar.

With all the drive to metricate in the UK. It has always been said that the
roads would never change. Distance will always be in miles and speeds in
mph.

Perhaps they didn't like the Irish example where distances are now all in km
but speed limit signs are in mph!

To me it would make sense for weights and distances. But, sorry, but for
air temperature, Fahrenheit makes so much more sense, with zero to 100
being
about the range of temps we see in a the northern US. Yeah, some places
go
below zero, and some go above 100. But it is so much more informative
than
the much more limited range on the Celsius scale. Celsius makes more
sense
for scientific work though.

Scientists in the US do use only metric.

Each to their own, I guess it's what you are used to. But I find the
fahrenheit scale makes no sense at all! Zero for freezing, one hundred for
boiling point. Makes much more sense than 32 for the freezing point!

And another point not related to your post. I usually see Americans calling
the system of measurment English, as opposed to Metric. Well we mostly don't
use that system so much so it's not 'English' any more, the correct term is
Imperial.