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Originally Posted by BigJon
Perhaps that stems from two things,
1: Growing up they would have had their height measured by their parents, possibly using the imperial system.
2: Having to explain to old people who only 'understood' imperial measurements what their height in cm actually meant.
Incidentally, my Dad (an engineer of some repute) always used to drill mm into me, saying cm are for dress making   . |
Too true.
AFAIK cm are only used in haberdashery.
We measured our children's heights as they grew up, and did it in mm's, as that is what they were going to learn in.
Funnily enough, decimal currency (metric) was introduced (1966) when I was still at school, whereas measurement ie mm's, klm's etc, didn't change until 1976, and I had finished my trade 6 years previously, and had to get used to a new form of measure. Not easy to do when you're indoctrinated with something else.
