When the older ones ask for a pound, we know it's 450 grams. Useless for this fishmonger who sells his products by the kilo, it facilitates communication with suppliers, he explains. Since Brexit, the Pol Roger house has been working with British wine producers to produce pint bottles of champagne again. Let me give you an example: for many years the popular size for a bottle of champagne was the pint.īut due to European legislation, only one size could be sold. He therefore asks that we relearn the two measures and that everyone uses them as they wish. ,” a cultural tradition that must not go away, says Warwick Cairns of the British Association of Weights and Measures.Įxcept that the younger ones hardly use it anymore, like Carrie.Īt school, European standards are favored today. It's a living connection to the world of Shakespeare She talks about grams, kilograms, meters.Įxcept for the pints she serves to her customers.Ī pint, I don't know what that is in millilitres, but we just say a pint or half a pint. The differences in spelling emerged with the advent of dictionaries, and s 'British standard' began to emerge following the 1755 publication of Samuel Johnsons A Dictionary of the English Language, and an 'American standard' started following the work of Noah Webster and An American Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1828. The only measure that matters is the pint!Ī 5-minute walk from the living room, Carrie thinks the metric system is best.Īccording to her, the imperial measure no longer makes sense.
I pull the person's hair up, so they decide how much hair I take out, because what I call an inch or a centimeter isn't necessarily what people call an inch or a centimeter. The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments. So Tom, the hairdresser, has his own method with his clients. I don't understand why anyone would want to go back and measure food in pounds.įor height, I'd say I'm 6 feet and one inch, but I don't know what that is in centimeters.īut I buy food in grams and I couldn't tell what a pound is. In this hairdressing salon in London, this client in his forties uses both units of measurement and it suits him very well, he says, settling himself in front of the mirror on a leather seat. In inches and ounces… The United Kingdom wants to restore the imperial measureīefore his departure, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to restore the imperial measure in the United Kingdom.īefore his resignation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had launched a consultation to bring the imperial measure up to date.Ī policy made possible by Brexit and a more instinctive measure according to its defenders.
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