According to Hillger, the general consensus among experts is that the U.S. is essentially half metric. “About 50% of the measurements you encounter in anything have to do with the metric system ...

Why is the U.S. still one of only a handful of countries around the world to not use the metric system? The world is full of questions we all want answers to but are either too embarrassed, time ...

The US lives in a metric gray area. It has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures, but it still remains isolated in its US customary measures bubble.

In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system.