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Back in 1986, upon reading of a forthcoming astronomical event, I went out amongst the unlettered and announced in the voice of one who knew, “Halley's Comet is coming!”
They, too, can read and write, of course, but their “solecisms,” “barbarisms,” and “vulgarisms” call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all—to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered?
Of course, these measurements were used by unlettered and ignorant peasants, who had no schooling; nowadays, when education continues till well into adult life, even to pensionable age, counting is done, as it were, on the fingers--metric, I believe, that it is called.