I'm five foot twenty-five centimetres tall

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I'm curious as to what sort of units you use to measure various things, especially since I've heard that some people will use a mixture of metric and non-metric units depending on the object (one example given was measuring distances in miles but speeds in kilometres per hour, or measuring short distances in inches and feet but longer ones in metres and kilometres).

If you answer "other", or want to add anything, please comment on this entry.

Edit to add: I'm also interested in how you'd measure the diagonal of (a) a television set and (b) a computer monitor. (For example, in Germany (a) is usually in cm while (b) is usually in inches.)

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[bride.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, official documents will be in SI, but I'd have to look it up to know how tall I was in cm (160cm). In regular conversation though, I say I'm 5'3". I should really try to think of these things in SI more often =)