Comment by garbagecoder
3 years ago
Aside from being overly pedantic, which is the reason I used the term, the doubly overly pedantic reply is that we do have the Imperial system, just redefined to be different than the itself-later-redefined imperial system.
Furthermore, the names of the units are from the imperial system, even if the definitions themselves are not.
Try pouring an imperial gallon into a us gallon container and then tell me I'm being overly pedantic.
The names of the units are from the winchester system which is what predated both US customary units and Imperial units.
I didn't say "imperial gallon" I said "imperial system" which is both historically correct and what people colloquially call it. Yes, since we adopted those units the measures have changed repeatedly on both sides of the Atlantic. I get it.
The US customary units were 1st established prior to the imperial system existing so it is not historically correct to say they are based upon the imperial system.