I have the same thing with kilometers. In Sweden and Norway, we use the Scandinavian mile which is 10 km. For some reason, in Denmark they don't. Having to say 600 km instead of 60 mil is so impractical.
In the UK we commonly still use feet & inches, but the NHS uses centimetres.
Technically & splitting hairs, the original comment could be construed as being correct - I'd suggest that most countries use centimetres rather than metres, but that wasn't what she meant, was it?
In eg. medical or technical context it definitaly would be meassured in centimetres, but in daily context a lot of people would use a mixture of metre and centimetre, like being 1 metre and 80 centimetres long.
People's height is usually referred to ft and inches, and that is how I think of it. I do know my height in cm but don't emotionally connect to it. If I think about the height of a wardrobe or building, I use metres or cms. Long distance for me is miles, just because that is on all the road signs. (I think I could quickly swich to km if they made us). If it is shorter distance, then it is metres.
Tbh I always use feet for height and metres for distance or literally any other measurements, and I've never seen height in metres aside from good search results, I've seen in centimetres alot however. Not that one is better than the other, all 3 get the job done.
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Who counts height in the amount of foot lenghts, or length in the amount of gardens?
I personally measure distance in washing machines. I don't know about everyone else.
True patriots count everything in football fields.
To be fair, in the UK, we still use feet and inches for height, including the younger generation.
The real question is why are horses measured in hands.
What I find odd is Americans using pounds but not stones. I can’t imagine visualising 140 of something instead of 14 of something.
I have the same thing with kilometers. In Sweden and Norway, we use the Scandinavian mile which is 10 km. For some reason, in Denmark they don't. Having to say 600 km instead of 60 mil is so impractical.
That makes sense!
In the UK we commonly still use feet & inches, but the NHS uses centimetres.
Technically & splitting hairs, the original comment could be construed as being correct - I'd suggest that most countries use centimetres rather than metres, but that wasn't what she meant, was it?
. . . & we know how metres is spelt!
In eg. medical or technical context it definitaly would be meassured in centimetres, but in daily context a lot of people would use a mixture of metre and centimetre, like being 1 metre and 80 centimetres long.
Meters and metres are both correct SI spellings
To be fair out of the Anglosphere I've never seen anyone use cm for height, only metres
I always use cms
In the UK we use metric for most things, but not height or distance/speed on roads.
People's height is usually referred to ft and inches, and that is how I think of it. I do know my height in cm but don't emotionally connect to it. If I think about the height of a wardrobe or building, I use metres or cms. Long distance for me is miles, just because that is on all the road signs. (I think I could quickly swich to km if they made us). If it is shorter distance, then it is metres.
Tbh I always use feet for height and metres for distance or literally any other measurements, and I've never seen height in metres aside from good search results, I've seen in centimetres alot however. Not that one is better than the other, all 3 get the job done.
Imperial is so bonkers to me like it's not even that accurate ðŸ˜
The irony is that one of the answers correct the original post and is still wrong because both Canada and Mexico uses metric system
I count height in cm because imperial units are fucking stupid.
I must add that in Canada, some remnants of the imperial system are due to our shared market with the US. Like ovens being in Farenheith.Â