Re: Charles Stross, GLASSHOUSE

"Bill Patterson" <WHPatterson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1153146409.911763.289580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
...It's always been a
source of amusement (at the awful blinkini' cussedness of things
in general) that we call our system "English" while Britain used
"Imperial" measurements that were slightly different.
...

Like many such things (e.g., the way we mostly don't pronounce the
"h" in "herb" while many Britons do), that's a matter of their having
changed after we left. US "English" units were based on what England
was using in the 18th century. The Imperial System was formalized in
1824.

Mike

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