&gt; Myanmar and Liberia will probably abandon imperial before the U.S. finally does.<p>Pedantic, perhaps, but the US doesn&#x27;t use imperial units, its uses US Customary units. These are <i>sometimes</i> identical to imperial units, and in a few cases where they aren&#x27;t identical sometimes use the same unit name with a different definition for measurements in the same dimension as imperial (e.g., imperial vs. US gallons.)