I know OF them all because I am old, but I have only ever used two of them in anger. I am aware which are area, length, volume, weight etc., but NO CLUE what they mean, for example in terms of how far I would have to walk.
Of course, being a smartarse who wrote half of a book on measurement helps my familiarity with those and many that are more obscure. I also know how much a talent of gold (or other metal) weighs, and tend to laugh uproariously when someone asserts that it was a coin, which a surprising number of people do.
I know their approximate size in terms of each other (and other Imperial measurements) and in most cases know about how big/long/heavy I would expect them to be, without exactitude.
However, I prefer, despite my decrepitude, to use metric measurements (and even SI ones sometimes), except for furlongs, which are indispensable for horseracing purposes.
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Date: 2010-02-26 08:20 pm (UTC)However, I prefer, despite my decrepitude, to use metric measurements (and even SI ones sometimes), except for furlongs, which are indispensable for horseracing purposes.
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Date: 2010-02-27 01:14 am (UTC)I have got mm, cm and m ok. Also liquids 1 cl up to a litre.
Weights between 1 and 25 stones or 1 gram to 5 kilo.
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