Good article that isn’t linked in my article

1975 NYT article on the metric system not linked

Google scholar article on bad marketing for metrics

https://www.proquest.com/openview/9d0e4154e6285a8f1806b83faafe1fc9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=48428

Our system officially called U.S. customary units “are defined relative to the metric system. The system that makes sure a gallon of gas in Oakland is the same as a gallon of gas in Omaha is calibrated relative to metric standards. So a gallon is officially defined as 3.78541 liters.”

History

1970s push

Other countries who swapped

Maybe even Sweden story of switching to the right lane

The case for imperial. The imperial system is more bottoms-up and focused on the human experience. For instance, Fahrenheit, made "0" approximately the coldest day you could expect and "100" approximately the hottest day you could expect. In Celcius a given days temperature is squeezed into a smaller range. The same 0-100 in Fahrenehit in

Favorite imperial measurement

Feet . The naming doesn’t make sense because a size 14 mens shoe = is just over a foot and that is a abnormally large shoe size. So a normal foot range falls well shy of the meaturement. All that being said, I have a soft spot for a foot. It seems like a good measurement. The distance between centimeter and meter is too large. There are too many things in our life that are about a foot..foot long sandwich