In some cases, America didn't "start" to use standards, opposite European standards. What happened was that America started out using the same standards as Europe (or Britain at least), and then Europe changed to different standards, albeit in some cases, better ones.
One major standard that I was told by an English professor had been changed on purpose was American spelling (center vs. centre, color vs. colour, etc). He only knew that it was supposed to be an anti-British act, but didn't go into the details. Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: October 22, 2001 08:08 Subject: [USMA:15801] Why did America start using everything oppising europeen standards? > I am talking about measurement, enumeration, papersizes > > virtually everything in the US is different. > didnt they see the burdens they would have?
