Sunday 29 May 2022

Mint Imperial?

The UK currently uses a strange mix of Imperial (e.g. miles per hour and pints of beer) and metric (e.g. price per kg of food) measures. Its PM reportedly wants to add fervour to the celebration of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, by allowing returns to Imperial measures (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee). The PM apparently sees bringing the UK inline with the US, Myanmar and Liberia (the only countries where Imperial measures are still used on a daily basis), as a vote-getter. Perhaps people, concerned about the 'cost of living crisis', will feel happier that the petrol (gasolene) they can no longer afford, is in gallons? Perhaps price increases of potatoes sound less scary in pounds and ounces than they do in kilograms? Nostalgia rules, OK?

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