Miata Mailing List: September 1998, Message #142

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On 9/1/98 21:12, Fletcher Blades fblades@fanshawe.newzealand.ncr.com 
wrote:

>is there a standard name for the "other" system? You Americans seem to   
>call it the standard system, which of course makes no sense when you live   
>in a country where metric is standard. Here in the colonies (Aust + NZ)   
>we often referred to it as the imperial system, but I've never heard   
>Americans use that term.

Only with respect to certain very large, older Chrysler cars.  :-)

It's generally called the "English" system, despite the fact that the 
English are now quite metric. "Wacky" will do nicely, I suppose. You 
think it's easy for *us* to understand? (Not quite as quaint as "stone" 
and "leagues," though--the English were obviously more ready for a change 
than we Yanks.)

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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
'94C

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