Shilling Units
an extension to the metric system, designed to bring the strength of divisible, well scaled units for daily quantities, named for a shilling being a 20th of a pound
it's designed around scales of half-units, such as a metric pound of 0.5kg, or a metric knot of 0.5m/s, and monosyllabic names for metric base units have been selected
the scales have been selected so that 1 mile per hour is 1 cord per second, every unit is a subdivision of the next largest one, you can divide a pound into quarters easily, you have an equivalent of ounces, inches, and fluid ounces (clearly a useful size!), and you can divide a wey into 10 stone or 100 pounds or 10,000 pennies
major units are in bold, minor ones are ensmallened and italic, but dw about memorisation, if these were the norm then you could probably get by just with the hour units, the pound units, and the shilling units
Scale | Metric | Pounds | Weights | Eng | Lengths | Eng | Volumes | Imp | US | |||
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Hour | 1.8k | x3,600 | Load | 2 sh tons | Mile | 1.1mi | Cask | 396 gal | 476 gal | |||
Wey | 50 | x100 | Wey | 110 lb | Rope | 55 yd | Bushel | 11 gal | 13 gal | |||
Stone | 5 | x10 | Stone | 11 lb | Pole | 5.5 yd | Gallon | 1.1 gal | 1.3 gal | |||
Base | 1 | x2 | Grav | 2.2 lb | Yard | 1.1 yd | Quint | 0.9 qt | 1.1 qt | |||
Pound | 500m | x1 | Pound | 1.1 lb | Cord | 20 in | Pint | 0.9 pt | 1.1 pt | |||
Half | 250m | /2 | Mark | 9 oz | Link | 10 in | Cup | 0.9 cup | 1.1 cup | |||
Quart | 125m | /4 | Crown | 4.4 oz | Fist | 5 in | Mug | 0.9 gill | 1.1 gill | |||
Shilling | 25m | /20 | Ounce | 0.9 oz | Inch | 0.98 in | Shell | 0.9 floz | 0.9 floz | |||
Cent | 5m | /100 | Penny | 0.2 oz | Pick | 0.2 in | Spoon | 1 tsp | 1 tsp |
and here's some more extra sets!
(energy units start with kilojoules instead of half joules because that way you end up with kilowatt hours, and as a bonus they approximate the energy needed to heat an equivalent mass of water by 1 degree fahrenheit or 1 degree temp (temp is the one i actually care about, fahrenheit is worse than celsius, and that's a low bar!))
(force units start with 10N because that way they approximate the weight of equivalent masses (should be closer to 9.81 than 10, but that'd be terrible and bad for units, so we're using 10))
(land area units are named that way because it's like traditional scottish ones, which were named for cost rather than proportional weight so it doesn't really apply but it's cool so im including it)
Scale | Metric | Pounds | Energies | Metric | Eng | Forces | Metric | Eng | Areas | Eng | |||
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Hour | 1.8k | x3,600 | Loadtemp | 1 kWh | 3.4k BTU | Loadweight | 18 kN | 2 tonf | Loadland | 7 sq mi | |||
Wey | 50 | x100 | Weytemp | 100 kJ | 1900 BTU | Weyweight | 300 N | 67 lbf | Weyland | 0.2 sq mi | |||
Stone | 5 | x10 | Stonetemp | 10 kJ | 10 BTU | Stoneweight | 50N | 11 lbf | Stoneland | 12.3 acre | |||
Base | 1 | x2 | Gravtemp | 2 kJ | 2 BTU | Gravweight | 10 N | 2.25 lbf | Gravland | 2.5 acre | |||
Pound | 500m | x1 | Poundtemp | 1 kJ | 1 BTU | Poundweight | 5 N | 1.1 lbf | Lane | 1.23 acre | |||
Half | 250m | /2 | Marktemp | 500 J | 0.5 BTU | Markweight | 2.5 N | 9 ozf | Markland | 0.6 acre | |||
Quart | 125m | /4 | Crowntemp | 250 J | 0.25 BTU | Crownweight | 1.25 N | 4.5 ozf | Crownland | 0.3 acre | |||
Shilling | 25m | /20 | Ouncetemp | 50 J | 12 cal | Ounceweight | 250 mN | 0.9 ozf | Ounceland | 0.06 acre | |||
Cent | 5m | /100 | Spoontemp | 10 J | 2.4 cal | Spoonweight | 50 mN | 0.2 ozf | Spoonland | 540 sq ft |