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Why American People use different measurement scales ?
For example: Inches. Gallons. Feet. Miles
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's the old English system. Canada, the UK and a bunch of other places used to use it as well, they just switched over to metric. The US never made the change.
- 1 decade ago
I think it had something to do with us completely splitting off from the British Empire during/before the American Revolution. Dont listen to idiots like "Mexican Dial Up", we still use the metric system, its just not the primary one that we use.
- 1 decade ago
Because Americans are better than everyone else. We spit on the metric system.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Because they want to be different
