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It's probably just a british person complaining about units as they can't make up their mind what to use. Ounces is perfectly valid in the context of pounds...
A pound is roughly half a kg, we can work with that. But nobody outside the imperial using countries knows what an ounce is, and we don't regularly use any unit close to it.
Most Canadians understand ounces
Ok. Canada finished converting in 1985, there's bound to still be a lot of people who grew up with imperial. "Current or former imperial using countries" then.
You clearly don’t live in Canada. Imperial units are very common for measurements. You ask nearly anyone, old or young, their height or weight, you’re getting an answer in feet/inches or pounds respectively.
Tons of baking is done using cups, tsp, tbsp etc.
Golfers use yards.
I’m sure there are more examples I am forgetting, but you get the idea. It’s not just people who grew up before 1985. It’s everyone.
Then you are not actually a metric using country obviously. Wtf are you arguing about?
It’s almost like things aren’t black and white.
Canada is officially a metric using country. Metric is everywhere. That doesn’t mean we can’t use imperial for anything.
Pretty much everyone uses troy ounces for things like gold.
But if you're in the US, you also need to be more specific, since we also have fluid ounces.
British? No.