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It depends a huge amount on age. Younger people in the UK use metric except where imperial is already the de-facto standard (pints, MpH, etc).

It is really just older generations who continue to use imperial and to push it all over the place (often inappropriately).

At least all food labeling has been standardised on metric (which honestly for cooking and monitoring food intake is a huge improvement). I can like with other areas remaining oddly imperial for now.

I just hope as the older generation disappear we start moving closer and closer to true metrification (I'd even want to see km/h so it is consistent with continental europe).



"Younger people in the UK use metric except where imperial is already the de-facto standard (pints, MpH, etc)."

News to me. I teach a few hundred 17-19 year olds each year. They are very hazy about any form of actual measurement.


 (I'd even want to see km/h so it is consistent with continental europe).

Or even, consistent with the country the UK has a land border with.




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