Yeak but then I’d need an easy conversion from just pounds to stones & pounds. American body weight just in pounds is as meaningless to me as kilos.
I’ve never heard the “gill” measurement word pronounced - and lo and behold I now have read that it’s pronounced dzhil- i.e. with a soft g. So no fish were harmed in the measurement of libations. Good to know. 
My allegedly native language …
Yes, soft g. Pronounced exactly as the female name Jill.
OPSOMANIA: https://wordsmith.org/words/opsomania.html
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I’m a bit late to this, but this is certainly not the case. I’ve been dealing with UK babies since 2002 and they have always been weighed in kilograms and grams. Families of laypeople (never medical) want to know the conversion to lbs and oz. But any medical calculations will be made from metric measurements.
I had a boss that said I was worth my weight in gold. It was about $612 an ounce then.
I worked with some Aussies and Kiwis in the past and the line I heard was, 5’10” or 6 feet tall sounds so much better than 1.77m or 1.88m. No one says or wants to be 1.88 meters.
In any case, one of my favorite terms (and it applies to food) is buttload, a traditional measurement for liquid.
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And look at the price of gold now. 
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