Illogical American expressions?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

So why don't the Yanks just go metric?

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Metric is 'communist', or at least some comedy sites think so.

Seems that some haven't grasped the humorous intent of this thread. FFS, lighten up. We get enough PC cr@p in our lives as it is.

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Originally Posted by Railey

It's been proposed a few times before in my lifetime. I think the Imperial System has too big of a foothold.....

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Repeat after me: "Wading depth in inches is not the same as wading depth in mm."

Don't worry, this will pass, just as soon as someone else does something worse. It won't take long..

The french have a name for the Phenomenon. They call it "Cultural Imperialism". Presumably because it gets up their noses even more than it does ours.

My pet hates are: Going forward = in future or as we progress, etc.
Are we done? = Have we finished?

Now that the kids are watching countless hours of mind numbingly inane, semiliterate You Tubers, I'm afraid it's going to get a great deal worse.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

So why don't the Yanks just go metric?

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Actually, the fault goes back to the Congress that sent Benjamin Franklin to France in 1776 - and while he was away removed the metric conversion bit from the legislation he had prepared for land surveying law.

the US is inching towards the metric system

They seem to know lots about 9mm's :-)

I think the UK still uses miles on roads.

Has anyone mentioned World Series Baseball with only American teams yet?

Not here , elsewhere in the past maybe this term has been explained. But a Canadian team has won this series before.