• @Delphia
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    41 year ago

    You’re half right. There is no “metric mile” at least not officially.

    But the reason ton/tonne worked in both is that a metric ton is 1000kg and an imperial tonne works out at 1016kg which is close enough for damn near everyone who weighs shit by the ton/tonne.

    But then the Americans and Canadians had to create a stupid hybrid and define the “ton” as 2000lbs (About 907kg)

    • @Deestan
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the extra information. But we do have metric “miles” in metric countries. Norwegian spelling, for example, is “mil”. Icelandic is “mìla” Etymology is from the imperial mile, again from latin.

      Example from official national dicitonary: https://snl.no/mil