>>98125278>was it a Brit thingPretty much? Imperial was the original, that got replaced with Metric as a better standard measuring system.
Britain decided that switching from Imperial to Metric in one go would be too much work and too confusing for people. So they decided to do it gradually, half now half later when people are used to it I guess, then just never got round to the second half.
America just said fuck it and never bothered
