How familiar are British people with pounds (the weight, not the currency)?

The Sandbox General
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I sometimes read British media and oftentimes I will see pounds used to describe weight.

But I thought they were all about kilograms or something

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I thought it was all about stone.

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I hope they never give up their unique terms and sayings, touch wood.

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The UK is mostly metric but also uses some imperial measurement units. They measure distance in miles, for example, and use stones for (body) weight, where a stone is 14 pounds.

When I lived in the UK I bought a bathroom scale and the stones were the main units, with pound ticks in between. So I gather they are quite familiar with the measurement.

Of course, if they buy meat by weight, they’re buying that in grams, interestingly. Not sure how cannibals go about it, though.

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I think they feel guilty for leaving Americans with such a confusing set of measurements so once every cubit they leave an Easter egg for the US readers of their websites.

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