Question for my North American audience!

Question for my North American audience!

When talking metric, do you say millimeter or mil in casual speech?

I've heard some tradies from the UK use mils and (I think) all Europeans use some form of "mil" instead of the full word, so I was just wondering if any folks across the Atlantic do the same :3

Question for my North American audience!

When talking metric, do you say millimeter or mil in casual speech?

I've heard some tradies from the UK use mils and (I think) all Europeans use some form of "mil" instead of the full word, so I was just wondering if any folks across the Atlantic do the same :3

@miiamustang

I'm not north american, but i am a PCB designer ... in that world of inches / mixed units a "mil" is 1/1000 of an inch. (that is, 0.0254 mm)

@miiamustang Mils are a thing over here but they're not millimeters. A mil is a thousandth of an inch.

@urja

@miiamustang i think in machining some will say "thou" for the same unit (1/1000 of an inch) ... which is funny because the usual "unit of thinking" when europeans are machining is a hundredth of a mm (0.01 mm), so ... we're more accurate?