You haven’t heard of the kilomile? How about the centiinch or maybe the miligallon

The title has 17 kilo miles per hour, that's what that K means. Kilo = 1000

I was about to say “woosh” but then it hit me

All measures are made up

Hell, I'm old enough to be a parent/grandparent to most of Lemmy, and I learned metric over 40 years ago...in a small rural US grade school.

Guess what - back then the UK still hadn't fully settled on metric, they didn't "fully" convert until the mid-80's if I remember right.

And they still use feet, mph, stone, etc, as they choose.

This whole metric arrogance thing is tiresome (and I vastly prefer it for many things, because of Base 10, so really it's a Base 10 preference).