Those of you who came of age in the 70s, like I did, may remember the grand display of commitment and righteousness around converting to the metric system. Some road signs were changed, some speedometers altered.

“Quick, teach the kids to count by 10s!” said school administrators everywhere.
“Um, ok,” said the teachers, and we all rolled our eyes and counted by tens and said easy peasy lemon squeezy.

But then, somehow, this right and simple thing became anti-American, and before math class could be dismissed we’d opted for the Imperial System for life, God Save the Queen, etc. etc.

Sigh.

Measurement
Haiku 24

The metric system
makes a perfect kind of sense
that the crown undoes

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