Obsolete Scottish units of measurement

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of length; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised as a unit of length between the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when the yard was formally redefined with respect to SI units as 0.9144metres, making the mile exactly (). For everyday use, five miles equates roughly to eight kilometres. Mileage is the

The inch (symbol: in or prime (symbol)|) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word inch is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb.

thumb|upright|Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a [[fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln)]] thumb|right|Prussian ell

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