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Where I am from:

- Mostly US paper sizes

- Pounds for human weight

- Ounces and pounds for weight,cheese and meat cuts in the supermarket.

- But metric for pre packaged products(they usually come in sizes similar to imperial though, like 450 grams)

- Gallons for gas and large sized bottled water

- But liters and millilitres for small bottles of water...

- And quarts for motor oil.

- Liters for duty free alcohol and spirits,but "bottles" for locally sold alcohol.

- US units for clothing and shoes

- But yards for fabrics/textiles

- Metric units for construction areas

- Colonial units for land areas and agricultute



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