You have to be joking. The US is already the laughing stock of the world as it's demonstrated repeatedly that it's incapable of going metric. (If you go metric you automatically get A4.)
I recall Kennedy once said that the 'US chose to go to the moon and do other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard'.
Seems many took 'other things' to heart and decided that if things had to be done the hard way then they may as well continue slogging it out with the antiquated brain-muddling Imperial System.
Right, doing 'nothing' the hard way set the US back a decade or two.
Twice in the past century the US changed paper sizes.
During WWII, to save paper, the government mandated that letter size would be one inch shorter, so it was 7 1/2 x 10. This innovation did not survive the war.
Legal documents submitted to court had to be on legal size paper. In Florida, this was prohibited by the end of the 1980's. Land deeds followed thereafter.
Not sure when federal courts jumped to letter paper.
Letter paper is the default for LaTeX. Thank the gods for the KOMA classes.
The British and Commonwealth countries were hardly better with their foolscap and legal sizes, it was a big mess.
The A sizes, A4 etc., and the B sizes for posters and art are significant step forward because of their ISO standardization and widespread adoption
However, from my perspective, it's not perfect, especially so at the 'edges'. For example the width of A7 shirt-pocket size notebooks of the spiral-bound flip-over variety are just too narrow to use comfortably, here the standard breaks down.
Before ISO standardization notebooks of this type were often wider and easier to use, also they were commonly available.
An excellent example of the spillover effect. I've noticed that whenever I've visit there.
Also to this outsider, that cultural and physical coupling to your southern neighbor is noticeably different in different parts of the country say between Quebec and British Columbia for instance.
You have to be joking. The US is already the laughing stock of the world as it's demonstrated repeatedly that it's incapable of going metric. (If you go metric you automatically get A4.)
I recall Kennedy once said that the 'US chose to go to the moon and do other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard'.
Seems many took 'other things' to heart and decided that if things had to be done the hard way then they may as well continue slogging it out with the antiquated brain-muddling Imperial System.
Right, doing 'nothing' the hard way set the US back a decade or two.