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Originally Posted by Hisuwashi
No 'ton' and 'tonne' are different measurements actually. Ton is the imperial unit.
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Tonne is the orginal word, but it's most commonly used here as 'Ton' for 1, and 'Tonnes' - for more, even though they are both different weights. In slang, it's said 'Tons.'
So yes, your right but when people say 'ton' or 'tonne' they don't literally mean the actual mass. It just means something very heavy!
'long ton (simply ton in countries such as the United Kingdom which formerly used the Imperial system of weights and measures) is a weight ton or gross ton, and is 2,240 pounds (exactly 1,016.0469088 kg). In the UK and most of the areas which used the Imperial system, the metric ton (1,000 kg), which it is conveniently very similar to – less than 2% difference – is the only form of ton legal for trade.'
A tonne (t) or metric ton, also referred to as a metric tonne or tonne métrique, is a measurement of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms. It is not an SI unit but is accepted for use with the SI.[1] The proper SI unit for a tonne would be a "megagram" (Mg, see SI prefix), but this term is rarely used in practice. Though the spelling tonne predates the introduction of the SI system in 1960 (it has been used in France for centuries, where it comes from), it is now used as the standard spelling for the metric mass measurement in some English-speaking countries. In the United States the correct term is metric ton.[2] The comparable imperial and US customary units are spelled ton in English.
In the USA this unit was defined in 1866[3] as a millier or a tonneau (both French words). This measure was used in Europe centuries earlier. However, neither of these latter words are in use in the USA and though they still appear in the statute, they have been declared obsolete by NIST.[2]
It seems now that this is debatable how you spell it
