I’ve realized that the display size, in inches, is sometimes in the name or model number of electronics that are sold not just in the US. Do people outside the US also talk about buying 55-inch TVs, 14-inch laptops, and 27-inch monitors? Does it naturally roll off the tongue or does it seem strange to anyone?
If it’s all inches, why didn’t measuring screens in centimeters take off?
It is also measured in inches in Europe and it is weird. Electronics get sold globally and I guess nobody wants to discuss a “139.7 cm TV”.
It’s a magic number though and I cannot imagine the sizes. I just know that 55 is bigger than 49. It is the same with phones, where it is much less important as screen ratios “get improved” every year and the diagonal means basically not much.
Additionally, at least in German, the term inch is usually translated into the local counterpart Zoll.
Same in France, where it is translated to “pouces”
And we tried changing this a few years back, but failed, since the numbers were too wacky.