A South African friend was bemoaning that she found the differences between American and British English really confusing, particularly around weights and measures and the British interpretation of Metric, so I tried to explain. [a thread]
/1 The British approach to the Metric system also confuses the British. We’ve got this messed-up hybrid approach where we’re technically Metric but back in the 1970s we took to change like a duck to custard.
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