It's time for a new system.

Base 8, perhaps? Or do we have to use inductive reasoning to each and every relationship between the units every time they are used?

You'll be laughed at if you try to publish an article using 'pounds', 'ounces', 'gallons'.

So yeah, we should be teaching kids to be 'bilingual' in measuring now in grade school, to work towards a future complete transition.

Since I teach vocational English to future cooks and chefs, every year I have to do a lesson unit on metric to US measurements, as they'll need to understand the basics of it, if not actually remember the exact equivalents, if they ever want to look up US recipes.

As an aside, I think that a lot of American recipes are becoming outdated too, as they presupposes certain amounts that do not fit the units sold in stores anymore. Food producers have reduced the amount in each package in re-designs, and so there isn't a whole pound of something canned in that can anymore. That makes it more difficult to use heirloom recipes, you need to buy two cans/packages/jars/bags and do the math. It's one more strike against American families cooking from scratch.

It's a real hodge podge right now with difference disciplines using different systems. But much of US aerospace still uses US customary, mostly because that's what alot of the reference documents and hardware standards still use.

I had to laugh when I saw a thermal analysis that had been done and the units being plotted were something along the line of in-sec/Deg-C * BTU or some such hodge podge.

Its hard for uz foreigners to understand your units.

uz Canadians have a totally messed up way of dealing with being metric but basically having the same tv/books/cultural things as the US.

In school we do metric for everything. At home we do recipes in cups, tsp, tbsp. We calculate our height and weight in feet and pounds. We drive in km/h. However, most of us are fluent in conversion, LOL.

If we want our students to excel, the international system of measurement has to be second nature. Learning one system at home and another at school is difficult.

Miles, feet and inches.

Same with Pounds and other stuff like that.

Now, if we can only bring back "Stone", that would be so awesome.

Long overdue.

It's the Bloit and nothing else!

In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire had its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which was the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet could run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varied dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at approximately two-thirds of a mile (1 km). Liquid volume was measured in gloops, and temperature in degrees Q (57 °Q is said to be the freezing point of water).[5]

doesn't measure in fine enough units...

(for me anyways) but I do think we should switch. But didn't we sort of switch many years ago?

It's a pain in the ass because I have to call out all dimensions in Imperial and metric.

US customary units are defined in terms of metric units.
We already sell fluids in predominately metric units (SI technically).
The international standard for altitude in aviation is feet, not meters.
And who is kidding who that the meter is any better than the yard.

But honestly, how many folks want to switch to the 100 minute hour?
And degrees Fahrenheit are vastly easier to work with that Celsius (the metric degree is way too large). And I strongly suspect that astronomers would prefer to continue to work in astronomical units. I also am not interested in a 1000 unit circle for trigonometry.

And in my field, until they change all the reference books and the national standards, along with the associated tooling and inspection materials, I'll stick to US customary.

Quite honestly I don't care what system is used, as long as folks stick to one system.

It's costing us brazillions every year we don't. Some of our non-metric allies include Burma and Tonga.