Originally Posted by Johnny_Monkey
Most people here can tell you how tall they are in feet and inches and how much they weigh in stones and pounds more readily than the equivalent metric measurements.
Americans, I gather, don't use stones just pounds. Do (did) Canadians use stones?
No, we came out of the Dark Ages in 1972. All metric.
"My truck gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the ways I likes it."
--A. Simpson.