Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 08:50:46 -0700

From: Anton Sherwood dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM

Subject: metric or ...



... what do you call the system of measurement that

americans use (i.e., the non-metric system). it seems to me i've

heard "english", but this isn't in my dictionaries. ...



"customary"



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