In a similar vein, when talking or writing are you consistent in your use of measurement terms (yards/metres etc).
Visitors to Canada from the US are "required" to use metric measurements, some do, some don't.
Personally I have been around since way before metric became a thing here (1970). I use a mix of both depending on who I am speaking/writing to and perhaps more important the actual type of measurement.
I have a habit of mixing both types even in the same sentence........
"After this 200 metre portage, we will have to paddle 3 miles down the lake where there are two short(ish) ports, the first is just 50 feet, the second one is 150 metres". After that there is a 300 metre Class III which we might be able to run. Maybe you should stand by with your 75 foot throw rope in case I swim, there is a 3 metre ledge at the bottom and I don't want to swim over that especially given the water temp is only a few degrees above freezing (are those c or f degrees?) ( doesn't matter what matters is that it is dang cold!).
or
"It going to be really hot today, the forecast is for well over 90 degrees but it's going down to zero overnight" (the 90 is f, the latter is c).
My Canadian friends know what I mean, my American friends are thinking "Zero?????, really?)
Then of course there are things like Gallon.
Statement: "I'll need a gallon of water for dinner tonight"
Q - Is that an Imperial Gallon or a US Gallon?"
A - Doesn't matter just fill up the pot
Occasionally heard in a grocery store when an American is doing last minute shopping near the put-in.......
Q - Does this quart of milk seem small to you?
A - No, that is the normal size (muttering.... for a Litre!)
Then there is the mass confusion when a freeze dried meal only gives the water required in cups, which type of "cup" is that?
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