Hey don't blame the English for that. I would be prepared to wager you couldn't ...

		seanhunter 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The scientific “unit” we call the decibel Hey don't blame the English for that. I would be prepared to wager you couldn't find a single English engineer who uses lbfs or anything similar. Everyone in physics or engineering uses metric for everything to do with forces even those who might use mph for a speed informally.

Nobody is blaming the english for anything, those are simply the units they used.