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[-] Enk1@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

We use US Standard, not Imperial. Americans took Imperial and changed the measurements but kept the names, because "fuck you, Britain" but "fuck you even more, everyone else!"

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago

Americans took Imperial and changed the measurements but kept the names,

Not accurate. Imperial and US customary were designed side by side. They share a common history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units but US did not come from imperial

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