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In all fairness, languages are tied to national identity in a way that, say, date formats aren't.

But honestly the fact is that the various schemes mentioned aren't seen as problems by the vast percentage of Americans and transitioning to something else would be painful to various degrees. And where it's important/useful to have metric and Celsius measurement scales, they're mostly used.




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