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Revanael
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Postby Revanael » Sat May 01, 2004 8:12 am

Why do you call them American? Its the Imperial system of measurements. One of the british things the americans really can't let go of!
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Postby swymir » Sat May 01, 2004 10:51 am

Well because I knew it had a name, since I read it 30 times in the thread, but when it came time for me to post my reply. I couldn't remember what it was and the back button was just 3 inches to far for my tastes so I just improvised.
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Postby rklenseth » Sun May 02, 2004 12:00 am

In America we call it the English System rather than American or Imperial. At least around where I live that is what we call it.
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Revanael
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Postby Revanael » Sun May 02, 2004 12:20 am

Well, me being english, I supose I should know the right name. :D Imperial, presumably because it dates from the times of the British Empire.
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Postby AoM » Sun May 02, 2004 4:44 am

My country tis of thee...

Bah, c'mon my fellow Americans! A little pride for our way of spelling over here! It's theater, honor, tomatoes, center, and the "h" in herb is silent! Didn't we fight a war over this or something? :wink:

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Postby AoM » Sun May 02, 2004 4:45 am

Oh, and it's my theory that the French language stole all the vowels out of Welsh.

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Revanael
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Postby Revanael » Sun May 02, 2004 9:04 am

Now that last sounds about right! good thinking...
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jeslange
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Postby jeslange » Sun May 02, 2004 4:19 pm

Aren't the U.S. and Austria? the only two countries who mainly use the english system, while basically the whole rest of the world uses the metric?
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Revanael
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Postby Revanael » Sun May 02, 2004 5:46 pm

We use it a lot unofficially. Pints of beer and milk, miles for speed limits, miles per gallon for efficiency...
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Postby swymir » Sun May 02, 2004 8:14 pm

AoM, sorry to steal your thunder, but I believe you just stole 10 minutes of a comic special and put it into post form. I can't remember the guys name though.
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Postby AoM » Sun May 02, 2004 11:53 pm

@Swymir: Well, most of it was an answer to the words already brought up. If I'm correct, you're thinking of Eddie Izzard's stand up routine where he was bashing American-English for not pronouncing the "h" in herb.

Anywho, guilty as charged on that one reference, although I think it's an appropriate usage. After all he's British too, and I am arguing against British spelling. :wink:

I haven't heard the Welsh comment anywhere else tho. :)

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Postby west » Mon May 03, 2004 2:04 am

Eddie Izzard rocks my socks.

And yours, too.
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