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Britain really needs to make the switch to metric once and for all! It's ridiculous clinging to imperial units out of sentimentality (and that's what it is).

I'm 18 and have little idea of how much a 'pound' of cheese is or how long 3 'yards' are. I think I represent the majority of young Britons who've grown up in a world of international communication and international travel, and speak in metres, grams and litres.

Why drop the imperial units? Most British adults still use them and anyway, the units are better in some cases than metric ones. It is ridiculous to be talking abot so many hundred grams when you can have a couple of pounds.

I have to disagree with the first comment. I'm 17 and most people i know of my age like their beer in pints, drive in miles, weigh themselves in stones and measure their height in feet. (although we do measure smaller distances in m and cm). Just keep them both and everyone will be happy.

My dad and I went to a DIY store the other day to get some wood. They sold me 1.5 metres of "two-be-one" (inch) wood. Oh how we laughed.

I am 18 and I measure just about everything in imperial measurements -- despite a family tendency to metric (both grandfathers were engineers). I use feet, inches, yards, and miles (and the odd chain, for cricket :-) ), ounces and pounds.

On the other hand, I'd always use metric measures for volumes other than beer and milk (what's a gill? what's a fluid ounce? what's an American fluid ounce?)

Let the market sort itself out. If people need metric measures, give them. If people need imperial measures, give them. There's no need to regulate everything.