1996 May 25th, “Geoffrey Brent” (username), “Re: Metric etc” in alt.devilbunnies, Usenet:
[W]e don’t use the decimeter because it’s a sub-unit. The name means “tenth of a meter.” We don’t talk about picograms or exalitres much either, even though they’re part of our system.
2002 February 9th, “Klaus von der Heyde” (username), “Re: US cups” in misc.metric-system, Usenet:
In german recipies, there are sometimes EL and TL. Which denote not exalitres and teralitres, of course, but Esslöffel (tablespoon) and Teelöffel (teaspoon).
I like the conversion function especially. // (“1 teaspoon in cubic lightyears” – silly teaspoons. In german they are worse; I spent 10 minutes last week wondering why I had to add an exaliter of water to something)