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When we came to the UK it took a bit of getting used to stepping back to Imperial as we had been using metric since the early sixties. What was more confusing was that there was a pound in weight and the currency being a pound.Between 1958 and 1963 I was taught in both metric and imperial - the metric system, on which SI is based, having been around since 1799