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I have to agree with theducks. I just don't think "And kilometres to go before I sleep" sounds the same.
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True, there isn't much point if there's no preceding number, and when reading fiction a rough mental conversion is good enough with native units adding to the artistic effect.
The Firefox plugin looks good, but doesn't seem to handle numbers as words (eg. three hundred and twenty five pounds). There are quite a lot of possibilities, but I think it is doable. Just not sure I have enough motivation to do it myself yet...