Why is English to much fun? Well, absorb this:"All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life" And you wonder why I have grey hair? 
And when your Editor arrived in this beautiful country in 1971, with the exception of the currency, measurements were in the old imperial system. So here is a method on how to remember the ratio of Miles to Feet:
"To remember how many feet there are in a mile, you just think of 5 tomatoes: Five To-mate-oes sounds like five, two, eight, 0 and there are 5280 feet in a mile.
In comparison, our system in Switzerland was much more complex:To remember how many millimetres in a centimetre, or how many decilitres in a litre, one had to remember "10". But then, if one forgot, one could always count the fingers on both hands...