Thanks for the response.

You're absolutely correct about Americans' stupidity in absorbing English Imperial units. While the metric system had not been created at the time we broke from the English, we at least had the opportunity to eliminate some of the obvious idiocies in the English system. While we adopted decimal currency and abandoned the stone as a measure of weight, we hung on to most of the units of convenience the English have the nerve to call a "system".

It's impossible to have an intelligent discussion of the problem with most Americans. The technical ignorance of the general public is appalling. Many of them believe the metric system is a European attempt to subvert their liberty. Another segment, which includes many machinists, argues that the metric system isn't as "accurate" as the inferial system. The fact that the notion of measurement system "accuracy" is a meaningless concept is completely lost on them. Many of the other counter-metric arguments are equally nonsensical and absurd. Just about all of them don't know what a measurement "system" is. Of course, it doesn't help that the average American is completely dumbfounded by even the simplest mathematics.

I often joke that, if the Americans adopted the metric system, they would have two measurement systems they couldn't understand. Sadly, my joke becomes truer every day.