Assertion: metric system's unit | /r/ObjectUse | used among laypeople
Facets:
value: relatively commonly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: And while you might still be lamenting the stubbornness of Americans for not seeing the genuine benefits to themselves that would likely be realized here, we should point out that virtually every nation in the world that uses the metric system has holdover units still relatively commonly used among laypeople that aren’t metric, for simple reasons of not seeing a reason to stop, from calories to horsepower to knots to lightyears and many more.