machinehead wrote:
...
I think when our ancestors threw off the yoke of the British Empire, they
just wanted to change a few things for spite. So they screwed around with
the dates, used commas in large numbers (e.g. one thousand is 1,000.00 in
the US and 1.000,00 elsewhere), and also they made ' mean feet and " mean
inches, instead of vice versa, much to the chagrin of Spinal Tap's
stagehands.
not to mention spelling: here's some fun reading if you're bored.
*http://tinyurl.com/966ho*
Not adopting the metric system is just us being lazy and stubborn. Gotta
have some fun when you're a superpower. ;-)
Ed
I'm American, and this one bugs me. Though I have to admit kilometers
always seem too small (vis a vis speedometers, highway signs). But if we
went metric we would get to say 'klicks' instead of kilometers, making
every discussion of a run to Costco sound like _The Bridge on The River
Kwai_.
--
Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture!
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin
so across the Western ocean I must wander" -- trad.
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