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[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Imperial units didn't come from America.

[-] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I know but USA imperial units are different from UK ones, just like how american english has some differences with standard english.

I assumes they were using USA imperial units since IIRC UK now also uses metrical units to some degree eg: they use centimeters to measure people's height

Edit: i may have confused UK and Canada in the last paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom

[-] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

To be very pedantic, in the USA they're not imperial (we left the British Empire, we had a whole war about it), they're "US Customary Units" and they're defined in metric lol

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