The 20 recognized metric prefixes have been specified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) for the International System of Units (SI), and ... from either Latin or Greek terms.

However, not everyone is fully convinced… The last holdouts from adopting the metric system Only three countries have not yet taken on the metric system as their official gauge of measurements.

In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

Metric was officially declared America’s preferred system of measurement in 1975, but the U.S. public has been slow to embrace it. What do Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States have in common?

Freed of an EU edict, government formally studies dumping meters and embracing old measurements.