In For a Pound, But Not an Acre

No one in Britain or Ireland will have to order a half-liter, ask for 200 grams of cheese, or drive at 110 kilometers per hour, The Telegraph reports. The EU has voted to allow Britain to keep its distinctive, if mathematically unfriendly, system of weights and measures indefinitely, and allowed traders the option of displaying both metric and imperial measures side by side in shops. The acre, however, will go the way of the 8-track. This ruling upends the previous scheme, which required Britain and Ireland to come up with a timetable for scrapping imperial measures in 2009.