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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Comments

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Things wanting comment:
Fever thermometer: I put fahrenheit, because I think it's more common, but I've used and owned both.
Distances between cities: Kilometres would be more likely, but miles wouldn't be unusual.
All the baking things: I use cups, tablespoons or teaspoons according to how much I need. I put cups for all of them except baking powder, where I put teaspoons.
Book parcel: I'm not sure what the post office weighs it in, but probably something metric here in Canada. But I put pounds, since it's the measurement I'd be most familiar with for things of that size.

Things where I put "other" because I don't normally measure them:
energy in a meal
power of a car engine
energy in a bomb
energy of a subatomic particle
wind speed
units I would buy meat in (I rarely buy meat.)
air pressure
tire pressure
all the questions to do with alcoholic drinks
both questions to do with pop
units on water bill
units on electricity bill

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Also, for small distances, I use quite a mixture of metric and imperial (what being Canadian does to your measurements!)
I measure very small things in millimetres
I'd say centimetre if something was about a centimetre, and inch if something was about an inch. I might distinguish between a centimetre and half an inch.
I'd use inches for things up to a foot, and I'd say one foot or two feet. I could probably use either three feet or a metre; I'm not sure which is more likely. Above that, I'm not sure when I'd use metric and when I'd use imperial for lengths or sizes of a few metres more... feet and inches for heights of people (except, as other Canadians have noted, for official stuff), but maybe metres for other things.