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Canadians still use the imperial system personally but the country is metricized. We’re just stuck with paper and wood in inches because we’re next to the US.

It's on the way out, but in Ireland people are colloquially weighed in stones, sheep in kgs and feed in lbs. For a while, speed and distance weren't compatible.

Metric money was a similar issue in the 60s. People still thought in shillings for decades. I read that historically (especially in Britain) entirely different counting systems were used simultaneously. Shepherds had their sheep counting numbers, sailors had a different one.

Dialects ran deep, not long ago.

Incidentally, it's lucky that metric never became known as "The French System."

There are a lot more similarly arbitrary things than just paper and wood which are measured in imperials in Canada.

I'm reminded of this (comical) guide I first saw posted on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/e1hx4f/how_to_c...

Speaking as a Canadian mechanical engineer: pretty much all raw materials. Metal bars, beams, sheet and plates, etc. Wire in AWG. Cutting tools for machining are also way more common in inch sizing.

At least metric fasteners are becoming common enough that I can use almost 100% in my designs.

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