I had a Police song in my mind the other day and one of the lyrics struck me as odd. In “Can’t stand losing you,” Sting sings “you don’t ever want to see me again, and your brothers gonna kill me and he’s six feet ten.”
The odd part about that lyric is that Europeans generally refer to peoples height in metric, either meters or centimeters. Maybe he did this because the metric system was adopted in Britain in 1965 and a man his age was accustomed to using feet and inches. Or perhaps he was specifically targeting the US market. Or perhaps he went with it because “your brothers gonna kill me and he’s 208 centimeters” doesn’t rhyme.
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