I'll do ya a solid. Instead of telling you to look up something to back up my claim (bad debating) I'll post this for you to look at
http://www.bwmaonline.com/Imperial%20Origins.htm
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Hah! That's actually a good read. That dude does not like metric! Even calls it sexist lol.
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That guy loathes the metric system. I don't have a problem with it, just American so I like standard