Timeline for Would Americans say: "He sat down 9 feet from me." or "He sat down 3 yards from me."?
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| Jul 30, 2021 at 18:05 | comment | added | MrWhite | "longer distances (such as the length of a football field), the +/- precision loss due to using yards instead of feet becomes insignificant" - The length of an American football field is not a good example here, which is entirely based on yards (100 yards, divided into "yard lines"). It would be wrong to use "feet" here, but that has nothing to do with precision. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 15:27 | history | answered | Phil Perry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |