There's one thing where imperial units beat the metric system, and it's
that their names *sound* better, at least in English.
For example an expression like "it went for miles and miles" sounds a
lot more fluent than "it went for kilometers and kilometers". (Or is it
"kilometres"? You see, there's even confusion in that...)
Likewise: "It missed me by mere inches" sounds more fluent than "it
missed me by mere centimeters".
Maybe this is simply because I have seen too many Hollywood movies.
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- Warp
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