Originally Posted by Machka

As a Canadian who was in school during the big switch from imperial to metric ... I'm "measurementally" bilingual. Or at least sort of "measurementally" bilingual.

They made the switch when I was in Grade 4, so I had learned distance, temperature and a few other things in imperial. I can picture an inch, a foot ... I even have a reasonable idea how far a mile is. But I'm a little hazy on things like pints and ounces ... I can't visualise that sort of thing.

And since I moved to Australia, I've become even more metric than I was as a Canadian.