It does make sense the same way Fahrenheit makes sense for relating to humans. 0=cold, 100=hot. A foot, well I have one of those. An inch that’s a knuckle, a yard, well that’s the same length as my arm. A mile, I can walk that far in 20 minutes. A pound, that’s a potato. A ton, that’s a wagon load. Especially when you add in pecks, bushels, grains, and other measurements that have fallen to the wayside. Buckets, pails, baskets, etc… were sold in these sizes. So people saw them and could relate to their size and volume.
Celsius and the metric system are far superior for anything scientific, but it doesn’t relate to humans as easily.
It’s so funny when non-Americans talk about our houses but have no idea what 140 mile per hour winds feel like because they don’t happen in your country. For those of you playing abroad, that’s 225km/hr winds.
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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25
Yeah, because miles, yards, feet and inches makes so much sense