A very British mess
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"A very British mess" is a campaign slogan used by the UK Metric Association (UKMA). It refers to the numerous anomalies that have emerged in the United Kingdom due its slow migration to the metric system, as a result of which both metric and traditional Imperial units have been used concurrently since the late 1960s. It is also the title of a 64-page report that the UKMA released on the subject in 2004, with the assistance of the Institute of Physics and a foreword by Lord Howe of Aberavon.
See Metrication in the UK and Anti-metrication for more details about the move to the metric system in Britain.
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- A very British mess – UK Metric Association report, ISBN 0-7503-1014-6, 2004.
